SIDELINES…
RECYCLED RUBBERS
Police in Vietnam confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new. After the raid on a warehouse in the southern province of Binh Duong, police detained a woman who explained that the used prophylactics were first boiled in water then dried and reshaped on a wooden phallus before being repackaged and resold. thaivisa.com, 25 Sept 2020.
MUSICAL MUTT
Gwenda Wilkin, known as “Britain’s leading lady accordioniste”, died on 6 May 2020 aged 86. She dyed her hair pink, toured with Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields to entertain the troops in the 1940s, and performed on Workers’ Playtime and Wilfred Pickles’s Have a on the wireless. She often performed with her dog Danny, whom she taught to bark in time to one of Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsodies. .
