What A Gas

This isn’t what I was planning on sharing today, but sometimes you’re scouring for tiny articles in the archive, and you get distracted by big, gaudy ones like this.

Daily Mirror – Monday 20 July 1987

‘Romped with a bevy of beauties’ is a phrase you only ever see in a tabloid newspaper.

Here’s a preview of the movie, from the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald

Friday 10 July 1987

And here’s the trailer for The Chicken Chronicles.

And finally, this is probably one of the better titles of a memoir you’ll ever see.

https://youtu.be/q1PMCom4fAw
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