Britain is a country where old men in danger of prostate cancer have a champion in Professor Pandha

The word 'prostate' is derived from the Greek word προστάτης, 'prostates', meaning : 'protector' or 'guardian'. For many old men their prostate gland, when it turns cancerous, is instrumental in destroying rather than protecting them and kills 11,000 of them each year.
Good news then, that old men of Britain two champions in the shape of Hardev Pandha, Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Surrey and Dr Richard Morgan, who have devised a test which can identify early signs of the cancer. Professor Pandha has said : "This new test could lead to faster detection that could save hundreds of lives and also offers the potential for huge cost savings."

Studies show their new urine test to be twice as reliable as the existing blood test for detecting the disease – the most common cancer among British men and a cheap, easy and accurate test could be in doctors' surgeries within months. This means it should not only save lives but also spare old men rectal examination. In addition, costing as little as £10 a patient combined with its accuracy and simplicity, it could even lead to all old having the opportunity to being screened for the disease, as women are for breast cancer.

The old blood test :

* measured levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen, or PSA, but it was wrong more often than it is right.

* meant many men were subjected to the pain, worry and embarrassment of unnecessary biopsies.

* sometimes missed fledgling cancers until they have spread elsewhere in the body and were harder to treat.

The new urine test :

* dispenses with the need for needles.

* searches the urine for a protein called EN2, which is not made by healthy people but is pumped out by tumours.

* in trials, detected about 70% of prostate cancers, making it twice as accurate as the PSA test.

* shows that levels of EN2 accurately reflect the amount of cancer in the patient’s prostate gland meaning that small cancers do not require treatment and can be safely monitored, whereas larger volume cancers can be treated more promptly.

Tim Sharp, of 'The Prostate Project', which part-funded the research, said: "This is potentially the most exciting development in the diagnosis of prostate cancer for 25 years."


So, for once it's good news for many old men in Britain.

Professor Pandha and the work of the Surrey Clinical Research Centre :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFWcS4BLDiU

Britain is a no longer a country for and says "Goodbye" to an old radical politician called Tony Benn who said much and changed little

Tony, left-wing political orator, campaigner and diarist and  has died aged 88 and the tributes have poured in.
Prime Minister David Cameron who once said he had been strongly influenced by his book, 'Arguments for Democracy',  tweeted : 'Tony Benn was a magnificent writer, speaker and campaigner. There was never a dull moment listening to him, even if you disagreed with him.'
Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Opposition was more fulsome when he said that he:
* his death "represents the loss of an iconic figure of our age."
* he will be remembered as a "champion of the powerless, a great parliamentarian and a conviction politician."
* "spoke his mind and spoke up for his values."

Fine words, but at the end of the day, the answer to the question : 'What did Tony achieve in his political career ?'. The answer is : 'In the Labour Government when he served  as Postmaster General and Minister of Technology he oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower and the introduction of the ill-fated Concorde airplane and ill-fate car manufacturer, British Leyland and not a lot else.' While he was doing this he believed he had a higher mission : "We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."

The late parliamentary sketch writer, Simon Hoggart, appraised Tony in an article in the 'New Humanist' 10 years ago entitled 'Worthless values' and rightly concluded :
'Forget policies, and most of all forget values. It's personalities that matter, and in the end decide how much tax we pay, where our children go to school, and whether the nation goes to war.'
http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/730/worthless-values

It was now that he swung to the left politically, challenged Denis Healey for the Labour Deputy Leadership, lost by a narrow margin and became instrumental in using Labour party machinery
to develop a left wing manifesto on which Michael Foot fought and lost the 1983 election which became known as the 'longest suicide note in history'. At this point, 30 years ago, he stopped exercising any influence over the body politic, withdrew from practical politics and launched his long rhetorical project. At that point he eschewed the possibility of changing the world from the inside where he was not a big player and swapped it for shouting from the outside where he was.

 For all his championship of the working classes there was always something of the public schoolboy about him, having attended the privileged Westminster School. He was obviously uncomfortable with this and in the 1975 edition of 'Who's Who' removed the reference to it and substituted : 'Education-still in progress'.  On the other hand he tried to present his privileged background as an asset and once said : "My contribution to the Labour party is that I know the British establishment inside out and what they're up to." There was, however, always that sense that he had to out-radicalise those working class warriors with whom he did business like Arthur Scargill during the bitter 1984-85 Miner's Strike.

He also maintained an enduring naivete and for example, after his trip to the Chinese embassy after Mao's death, recorded that he was 'a great admirer of Mao … he made mistakes, because everybody does', ignoring the fact that the estimated
number of innocent people who died in the Great Leap Forward, through Mao's policies for the countryside and from mass executions varies from between 40,000,000 and 65,000,000.
His attempt to stop the Iraq War in 2003 led to his visit to Baghdad and interview of Saddam Hussein, one of the world's worst mass murderers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxHtQ1__qUc about "paths to peace" and recorded in his diary that his Deputy, Tariq Aziz was 'a nice guy'.

This naivete was beautifully demonstrated in his interview by Ali G, in which he did not realise that he was talking with Sacha Baron Cohen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Khj7ZHMSo

At the end of the day he changed little, but might possibly be remembered, as a footnote in the last quarter of the twentieth century for his rhetoric :
http://www.finestquotes.com/author_quotes-author-Anthony%20Neil%20Wedgwood%20Benn-page-0.htm

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx
1845

Britain in 2014 : still no country for old stags as well as old men

Four years ago it was the magnificent stag, the Emperor of Exmoor which was killed and butchered.

Sunday, 31 October 2010 : Britain is now no country for old stags as well as old men :
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/britain-is-now-no-country-for-old-stags.html

Now it is the turn of the Monarch of the New Forest who was shot, wounded and drowned.
He was 16 years old and met his ignominious end at the hands of bungling poachers in a suspected attempt to snatch his spectacular 16-point antlers, worth around £1,000.
He was badly wounded by a shot to the head by a low-calibre gun lacking the power to kill him instantly and which ricocheted off his huge skull. He is thought to have bolted in agony before drowning while seeking safety in a nearby lake.

The Monarch, who stood over 8ft from his hooves to the tip of his antlers and weighed around 25 stone, was so well known in the New Forest that gift shops had his picture on souvenir mugs, clocks and jewellery.
His body has now been fished out of the water and a spokesman for Hampshire Police confirmed that it was investigating a firearms offence. It is illegal to shoot privately-owned deer and those found guilty of doing so can face fines of £5,000 but this was clearly not a deterrent in the case of the Monarch.

He had been the biggest and the leader of a herd of 40 red deer owned by farmer Dan Tanner and kept at Burley Park near Ringwood, Hampshire where he was a popular sight on New Forest Deer Safari tours.

Yesterday 65 year old Dan said that poaching was still a real problem :
"Because The Monarch had such a fine set of antlers he would have been very attractive to poachers.  They would have wanted his head as a trophy."
Dorothy Ireland, of the British Deer Society, said poachers have no feeling for animals they have either injured or shot.

2014 : Poachers in Africa killing old elephants for tusks and poachers in Britain killing old stags for antlers.

Britain is still a country for and says "Happy Birthday" to an old cockney actor called Michael Caine

Michael Caine, who has appeared in over 100 films, is 81 years old today.

What you possibly didn't know about Michael, that he :

* was born 'Maurice Micklewhite', of part Romani and Irish blood, in Rotherithe, the South London borough next to the one where I was born, Lewisham, and the one in which my Father's brother, 'Uncle Bill,' once lived and where Michael's mother was a cook and charlady while his father worked as a fish market porter.

* at the age of seven in 1940, was evacuated to Norfolk from London during the Second World War German bombing of London docklands and then, back in London, was educated at Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell, which he left at the age of 16.

* lived with his family in a prefabricated council house at the Elephant and Castle
and later said : "The prefabs, as they were known, were intended to be temporary homes while London was reconstructed, but we ended up living there for eighteen years and for us, after a cramped flat with an outside toilet, it was luxury."

* worked as a filing clerk and messenger for a film company in London until he was 'called up' to do his 'National Service' in the Army in 1952 and served in Germany and then on 'active service' in the Korean War in 1954 which had a profound effect on him : ' I was nearly killed. There were four of us on patrol in a valley in the middle of the rice paddies. The Chinese were closing in on us .... I faced a moment when I knew I was going to die and I didn't run, I wasn't a coward, and it affected me deeply. I was at peace with myself and that's guided my life, not just in terms of whether someone's going to kill me, but in everything.'

* got a job at the Horsham based 'Westminster Repertory Company' to play 'small butch parts like policeman' and in his first role walked on stage to arrest the villain of the piece, but with his trouser flies undone, was greeted with audience laughter and forgot his "come along with me".

* developed malaria stemming from Army Service in Korea and by the time he had recovered, the theatre company had 'gone bust' and years later, sent its then destitute and dieing owner a cheque, which was returned 'uncashed' after the old man had shown the hospital staff his 'proof' that he had given Michael his first job.

* after dozens of minor tv parts and first role in a feature film in 'A Hill in Korea', entered the public eye at the age of 31 as the upper class British Army officer, 'Gonville Bromhead VC', in the 1964 film 'Zulu' after the director, Cy Endfield, offered him a screen test after Michael assured him that he could do a 'posh accent' and believes that, as a London cockney, he was offered the role of an aristocrat because Cy the American, did not have British class-prejudice.

* followed 'Zulu' with 'The Ipcress File' in 1965, in which he played the spy, Harry Palmer and 'Alfie' in 1966 where he played the womanising Londoner and title character :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i49XISKA48

* made his first film in the USA in 1966, after an invitation from Shirley MacLaine to play opposite her in 'Gambit'.

* at the age of 37 in 1970 worked on The 'Italian Job':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEltJsIwSvE

and played the lead in, in my opinion, his best film, 'Get Carter' in 1971 and the street used for filming in Gateshead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgU1L1z-Zx4

* made 'Sleuth' opposite Laurence Olivier in 1972 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzLhcpx_xw0
and 'The Man Who Would Be King' with Sean Connery, which is the film he wishes 'to be remembered for' after his death. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNb6SxXcD7g

* played the the commander of a Second World War Luftwaffe brigade, disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the British Prime Minister in 'The Eagle Has Landed' in 1976 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNYvUVCpjI

* by 1980, had moved to the USA and made a number of 'forgettable' films and also better ones like 'Educating Rita' (below) in 1983, 'Hannah and Her Sisters' in 1986 and 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' in 1988.

* had a lean time in the 1990's as he found good parts harder to come by, but had a high point when he played Ebenezer Scrooge in the critically-acclaimed 'Muppet Christmas Carol' in 1992 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpb9EbmvM5M

* resurfaced in 'Miss Congeniality' in 2000 followed by 'Last Orders' in 2001: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wut-VoNdzgs

* launched 'Harry Brown', in 2009 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVOSfHFNlcI in which he played an ex-Royal Marines, decorated NCO and called for the reintroduction of 'National Service' in the Armed Forces to give young people : "a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence".

My earlier posting on Lewisham, the London next to Rotherhithe where Michael was born : Britain is a country with a London borough called Lewisham where Jude Law and I both saw the first light of day :
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=605625879464789847#editor/target=post;postID=7665023835226528681

Britain is no longer a country for and says "Goodbye" to expert of its Anglo-Saxon past, scholar of its Medieval History and victim of pancreatic cancer called Professor Nicholas Brooks

Nicholas, who practised the kind of scholarship which reached out to the public, has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 73.

What you possibly didn't know about Nicholas, that he :
   
* was born during the Second World War in Virginia Water, Surrey, the son of a talented pianist and figure-skater mother and a consultant physician father..

* attended boys' public school, Winchester College, where the brilliant Senior History Master, Harold Walker taught and became fascinated by Kent's historic landscape while staying at the family's holiday cottage which lay on the continuation of the Roman-built Watling Street, south of Canterbury.

* studied history at Magdalen College, Oxford and was a keen oarsman, representing the College at international regattas in Copenhagen and Oslo before graduating in 1961 and while working on his DPhil, at the age of 23 in 1964, was appointed to his first academic post, at the University of St Andrews, where he met and married Chlöe Willis and stayed until the age of 44 in 1985.

*  as an archaeologist, identified one of King Alfred's forts and discovered the structure of another's ramparts and co-authored a paper with his old teacher, Harold Walker about the unsuspected information about arms and armour depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.

* completed his doctorate on the Anglo-Saxon Canterbury charters at the age of 28 in 1969 which he published as 'The Early History of the Church of Canterbury' in  1984 which, through its study of the records of donations of landed property to the Church by lay benefactors, helped to explain its importance as a great institutional landowner with huge political clout.

 * in 1978, became General Editor of the series 'Studies in the Early History of Britain', which was important in establishing an approach to Anglo-Saxon England that understood it in the context of the whole of the British Isles and its contacts with continental Europe.

* in 1985, at the age of 44, was appointed to the Chair of Medieval History at Birmingham University and worked there until he retired in 2004 and in 2009 with the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artefacts, was appointed to the panel co-ordinating research into the finds and convincingly explained its apparently odd composition, with only the hilts and pommels of swords, not the blades, in terms of its being the 'working capital' of a department of a royal armoury in the Kingdom of Mercia near Lichfield.

*  published the full edition of the 185 Canterbury charters, completed after 30 years of editorial labour with the help of his colleague Susan Kelly and support of the British Academy, an archival hoard which brought to light early medieval English history in all its guises: religion, the Old English language, law and politics, landscape and economy and connections with Continental Europe.

* threw light on the Medieval history of the County of Kent, where I live, in as study of the effectiveness of the communication strategies used by Kentishmen in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and in another study proved that works ordered by medieval kings to maintain the bridge over the River Medway two miles away from me in Rochester, and persisting in various administrative incarnations until the Bridge Trust today, originated in late Roman arrangements for the bridge.

* was, from 2008, a key member of the Lyminge Archaeological Project Steering Committee and spoke to volunteers on his visit to the dig in 2013, where his detailed knowledge of the history of the Anglo-Saxon Monastery was invaluable and got stuck in on one of the hottest days of the year and was thrilled to find Saxon vessel glass in a sunken-featured building.

* like King Alfred, left his imprint in good works, in his case in an awesome catalogue of published scholarship : http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/lang_en/autoren.php?name=Brooks%2C+Nicholas+P.

Nicholas died in hospital on the 2nd February. The pancreatic cancer from which he suffered remains the cinderella of cancers in comparison with bowel, breast and prostate. Only more funding and public awareness will lead to earlier detection and, ultimately, better survival rates. It is often called the 'silent killer' since many of its symptoms mirror other less critical illnesses and doctors may not recognise these early enough, resulting in lost time before diagnosis and a terminal outcome. It kills 7,900, in Britain each year with 75% of cases in those aged 65 years and over.

Last year, Maggie Watts, who lost her husband to pancreatic cancer at the age of just 48 in 2009, launched a UK Government E-petition to push it further up the political agenda.
The petition is a call to :
'Provide more funding and awareness for pancreatic cancer to aid long overdue progress in earlier detection and, ultimately, improved survival rates'

Maggie speaking to ITN : http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2014-01-21/pancreatic-cancer-campaign

So, in memory of Nicholas, please sign Maggie's petition and spread it to family, friends and colleagues though facebook, twitter and other social media to help her get her 100,000 signatures by April 8th : http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48389

Britain is no country for more and more old men who need, but now no longer receive help to wash, dress and eat.

Britain is no country for old men who need help with dressing and eating

http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/britain-is-no-country-for-old-men-who.html
This was a post in May last year, relating to proposed cuts in Government funding for help for old men and women in their own homes. Ten months on and a 'Care in Crisis' report by Age UK quantifies the impact of those cuts. It shows that :

* about 168,000 old people have stopped receiving help with essential tasks such as eating, washing and getting dressed as a result of deep and continuing Government cuts to social care.

* the 2010-11 figure of 1,064,475 people aged 65+ receiving some form of social care service in England has been cut to   896,000, a reduction of 168,000 or 15.8%.

* go back to a total of 1.231 million people receiving help from social care services in 2005-06 and the number has fallen by 335,000 in seven years.

* this deterioration in social care has come despite the fact that the number of pensioners rose by more than a million between 2005-06 and 2012-13 and number of over-85s by 30% during that time.

Age UK's Charity Director, Caroline Abrahams said :
"The figures we have uncovered in this report are catastrophic. Older people who need help and who are now not getting it are being placed at significant risk and families who care for loved ones are experiencing intolerable strain."

Caroline also said :
"If older people do not receive the care they need and as a consequence end up in Accident &Emergency units and hospital wards, we have simply shifted people around the system at great financial cost and created distress and disruption for older people in the process. This make absolutely no moral or economic sense."


Liz Kendall, Shadow Minister for Care and Older People said:
"Age UK's devastating report shows the true scale of the care crisis unfolding under this government. The failure to provide decent care and support for elderly people is simply unacceptable in the 21st century in one of the richest countries in the world."

Many councils have pared back their provision of social care over recent years by tightening their eligibility criteria and old people over the age of 65 in need of help are now :

* worst off in the 3 areas where they receive no help unless their needs are 'CRITICAL'.
* in the largest numbers, receiving help in 130 areas where  their needs are 'SUBSTANTIAL'.
* a bit better off in the 16 areas where they receive help if their needs are 'MODERATE'.
* best off in the 3 areas left where they receive help even if their needs are 'LOW'.

What is puzzling is the fact that, according to the Government, there is no problem for Norman Lamb, the Care and Support Minister, said:
"Social care is a priority for this government which is why we have already allocated an extra £1.1bn to councils from the NHS to protect services, but both our health and social care services need to work differently to respond to the needs of our ageing population – we need to focus on keeping people well and living independently for as long as possible."

Well there you go. There isn't a problem after all.

Britain is a country led by a Prime Minister called David Cameron who believes it is and will be a good country for old men and most of its people don't believe him

With the number of over-65s expected to rise by 51% and the number of over-85s to more than double by 2030, Britain is a country which is going to have lots more and more old men and women.
"We're an old country – with our best years ahead of us." That's how David Cameron once characterised Britain, as he set out his vision to "defuse the demographic timebomb" and use its energy to power the country forward. Yet new research for the Guardian shows many old men and women do not share his optimism about the future of our rapidly ageing Britain, amid growing concern about pensions, health and social care, rising living costs and marginalisation.

The survey of 1,600 old people, carers, professionals working with older people and members of the public showed that :

* just 29% felt the standard of living of old people was currently at a good level, compared with 46% who said that it wasn't.

*  11% expect old people's standard of living to improve over the next 20 years, against 79% who said that it wouldn't.

* over 70% do not believe old people's overall quality of life will rise in the next two decades, compared with under 16% who do.

* many think there is a growing divide between those who are financially secure as they retire and those who are struggling in their old age.

 * one respondent said : "Some people's standard of living will be good, but a lot of people's isn't, and I expect the large gap between the haves and the have-nots to grow. Pensions are worth nothing, care is being cut back, people are living longer, jobs are going digital. All this, to me, adds up to a hideous time ahead, potentially, for older people."

* the issue of loneliness was touched on by another respondent who said that old people are "the forgotten part of society, hidden away and isolated".

 * 77% do not believe public services are working in a co-ordinated way to meet the challenges ahead of a Britain with more and more old men and women.

Alan Walker, Professor of 'Social Policy and Social Gerontology' at Sheffield University and Director of the 'New Dynamics of Ageing' research programme, has said :
" It is no wonder there is a general pessimism about ageing when so much of the debate is a negative one. Across all of our public discourse, ageing is seen as a problem and older people are seen as a burden."

Britain is still a country for and says "Happy Birthday" an old actor called Tom Courtenay, once a Northern lad who told Mrs Brown "you've got a lovely daughter"

Tom Courtenay is 77 today. I remember seeing him on black and white tv in the August of 1963 in a Television Playhouse play called 'The Lads' which also featured John Thaw. I was 16 and Tom was 26 when he sang Trevor Peacock's title song : 'Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter' ( lyrics at the bottom of the page).
Here he sings the song against a backdrop of clips from the film 'Billy Liar' which he made with the beautiful Julie Christie in the same year :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsaXnZSipBA

Things you possibly didn't know about Tom, that he :

* was born in Hull where his father was a boat painter, left school and after the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, made his stage début in Edinburgh in 1960 and took over from Albert Finney in the title role of 'Billy Liar' at the Cambridge Theatre in 1961 saying : "We both have the same problem, overcoming the flat harsh speech of the North."

* had his film debut in 1962 with 'Private Potter', directed by Finnish-born Caspar Wrede and starred in 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner', directed by Tony Richardson and played 'Billy' in 1963 and encapsulated the freedom of running in the countryside while at reform school : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXMS5ZXKvYA and the triumph of deliberately losing the race the Governor, Michael Redgrave, had pinned his heart on winning for the school, seen here by fast forwarding to the wonderful finale : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtQ28Gl1Wk

* starred in  John Schlesinger's film version of 'Billy Liar' in 1963 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFdJ-Pr15S4

* was, for his role as the revolutionary leader Pasha Antipov in 'Doctor Zhivago' in 1965, nominated for an Academy Award for 'Best Supporting Actor' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6raF7kcJJs

* played opposite Dirk Bogard in 'King and Country' directed by Joseph Losey : http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/413663/King-And-Country-Movie-Clip-They-Can-t-Shoot-Me.html
and had parts in the War films : 'Operation Crossbow' and 'The Night of the Generals'.

* returned to film when he played the title role in the latter's 1970 production of 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_XFkKN2fzQ

* said that he had not particularly enjoyed film acting and from the mid-1960s concentrated more on stage work and in 1968 at the age of 31, began a long association with the city of Manchester when he played in 'The Playboy of the Western World' for the Century Theatre, the precursor of Royal Exchange Theatre where he gave man stage performances including 'King Lear' in 1999 and 'Uncle Vanya' in 2001.

* back in film played the dresser in 'The Dresser' with Albert Finney in 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDkMB9Y_4nk


* had his memoir 'Dear Tom: Letters From Home', comprising those exchanged between him and his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s, published to critical accalaim in 2000.

* at the age of 74 in 2011, joined the cast of 'Gambit', a film starring fellow RADA alumnus Alan Riskman and in 2012 co-starred in 'Quartet' directed by Dustin Hoffman and with Maggie Smith.

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter.

Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare',

But it's sad, she doesn't love me now,

She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine .

She wants to return those things I bought her.

Tell her she can keep them just the same.

Things have changed, she doesn't love me now,

She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine.

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well,

You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud.

If she finds that I've been round to see you,

Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine.

Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart,

I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine.

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well,

You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud.

If she finds that I've been round to see you,

Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine.

Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart,

I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine.

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter.