Reportedly a favourite act of the Queen Mother, they chalked up two appearances at the Royal Variety Performance and on stage (in character as Hinge and Bracket) they played Miss Prism and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Ernest (Whitehall theatre, 1987), and toured in a production of Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage in the 90s. We definitely both feel that losing our parents before the age of 40 was too soon, but the real shame is the children no longer having any grandparents.

Then I started playing piano for the acts in The Escort Club, Pimlico, and one night it was this Perri St Claire. We could be something like an old retired operatic singer who still thinks she can sing and you could be her pianist’. The pair wrote the latter show with Gyles Brandreth, who last night said: ‘George Logan was a very funny, very brilliant man - a wonderful musician and a great entertainer. She gets work for them all at the Monarch Cotton Manufacturing Mill - and then sets out to better herself and her sisters. Even though my lizard brain is poised to curl up in fright, I’m managing to put one foot in front of the other.Rupert, nearly broken by the horrors he has endured, has been humiliated by the bride who once seemed so right for him, and he rejects Grace's love and any hope of future happiness. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the sisters' lives after a tragic accident both are attracted to him - but for very different reasons. The pair became well known throughout the 1970s and 1980s for their performances on BBC radio and TV programmes such as The Good Old Days and Dear Ladies with Gyles Brandreth. You see, in the early Instagram and blogging years, I read a few things other T21 mums said about pushing the whole “cute” angle with Down syndrome which can be damaging, and belittle the experiences of those facing the reality of a more grown up child with DS. Moving to a flat in Nottinghill Gate in 1965, George, a trained musician soon landed a job playing piano in a Marylebone pub.

She was doing ok though, she was in the Netflix zone (and not willing to let any other children see, she huddled close to that tablet! As the distant cousin of the village father, Kakuna was allowed to dwell on the property but was no one’s responsibility. It’s a charming, funny and thought-provoking read from the entertainer who was born and raised in Rutherglen, a small coal-mining town in South Lanarkshire, and a place where he had always stood out from the crowd. She was just finding the repetition of the routine hard and also maybe a bit scared of the unknown – she had never been to the theatre booked for the event.

Discover who the quiet, reserved spinster lady was when she was far from quiet and anything but reserved.