Money for nothing -Wide angle Wednesday-

Okay, so watching televised reality is verboten in the house of Johnson for the next few days (and perhaps longer) It's off to an uneasy start, "one hour at a time rummy" but discussing same is well, not.

Last evening, I stared at another lovely California sunset and stated aloud (and actually) to no one in particular, I believe Dorothy "Dot" Cotton should be given a Knighthood!

"What on earth for" She laughing in a peculiar "Public Schoolgirl" way (a sound, if you've ever heard it, you know of which I mock) asks, "for being a ridiculously antiquated example of British Womanhood?"

Granted, Dot is (a) fictional (b) seriously flawed and (c) well, putting it mildly, odd. But, she is a particular British institution and that "institution" is best exhibited by The Queen. Who I heard finds Dot "charming" and "lovely"

For service to her community of Albert Square in the London Borough of Walford, to the nation at large, as well as a worldwide television audience (and the purse of the BBC) I give you Dame Dorothy!!

After taking away (and locking up) my Tanqueray Ten and Fever-Tree, She asked a simple question:

"What the hell has become of you?"

The above photo was taken at a laundromat in the Castro this morning, Dot will get you change, right after she finishes her fag.

(Stop! just don't go there)