SILLY WEEK - SIMI'S CHOICE

We must have a "Lucy" clip for Silly Week so to round it off, here's Simi the dog's choice.  She thinks this is a very intelligent dog with a very silly mummy and daddy!

I Love Lucy - Fred the Cairn Terrier

NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH LUCY

Here's Lucy again:

Lucy and Viv at New Year

BUONA VIGILIA!

I'll let the Queen of Comedy convey the magic of Christmas Eve:

I Love Lucy - Christmas [1951]

CHRISTMAS IS COMING...

... and out on the balcony the winter fuchsia is thriving, despite my benign neglect:

Sicilians don't usually decorate until the Immacolata holiday on 8th December but I couldn't wait any longer! [The photos in the background are of the "White Christmas" I spent in Nevada in 2002. ]

Rosa helped me decorate on Thursday and luckily things did not end up like this:

Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance - Lucy and Viv at Christmas

SILLY WEEK: LUCY MAKES BREAD

It's the "Last Night" of Silly Week and I think Lucy should have the last-but-one word. I'm glad to see that Lucy makes as much mess as me when she bakes bread!

I Love Lucy - Pioneer Women [31.3.1952].

TRANSLATION FUN

I'm always sounding off about translation, so for Silly Week, let's have some translation fun with Lucy:

I Love Lucy - A Matter of Translation

WHY I DON'T DIY !

I was going to put my new beach chair together today:



Then I remembered that this sort of thing is likely to happen if I attempt DIY!






So I'll leave it in its neat packaging till Rosa's husband comes round....

I LOVED LUCY

It's 20 years today since the funniest lady of them all left us. I still remember the first time I saw Lucy on TV: I was having a tantrum about something and my Dad coaxed, "Come on. Come and watch I Love Lucy with daddy." "Don't like I Love Lucy!" I wailed cooperatively. "Don't be silly", responded my patient Dad: "Everybody loves Lucy." And from the moment I started watching, I was hooked.

Here, hoping to get a part in a film, Lucy joins the Turo grape-treaders. Her comic timing [learned from Buster Keaton] is, as always, perfect:

I Love Lucy [1956]


Did you love Lucy? If so, which episodes / moments were your favourites?