Coloured balls and colour film.. in blackpropaganda

I am pretty sure there are only a few (if any) people on here who know much about snooker - lots of coloured balls - lots of skill required to move the cue balls around to score points. Anyway - over Sunday and yesterday there was the World Final from Sheffield. The whole championship takes nearly two weeks - and the final is over 37 frames - and a frame can take anything between 20 minutes and an hour depending on the play. My point is that it is a game of great skill, but also concentration and psychology - I am amazed that the players can hold themselves together - and last night a chap from near my home town beat his opponent 18 frames to 15.

Why am I saying all this - because it is perfect television when played like this - green baize table, a rhythm in the play which shifts, breaks to make tea, have a pee - and you can still do something else. The commentators do not shout!

I have played snooker in my time - I was crap!

The pont is, that we watched the final frames sporadically because we were also watching a nice documentary about VE Victory in Europe Day) on May 8th 1945. So on Friday it will be the seventieth anniversary and they had a range of celebs in their 70s and 80s talking about the day as they remember it - with lots of archive footage - taking the story from 1945 to the late 1950s. If I was a hidebound Tory I would think it was an election broadcast for Labour - who gave you the NHS and welfare state - Labour!!! Who is taking them away.....? It showed a time of real shortages, of deference, of things eventually getting better, a sense of identity coming out of the war. Most of this has gone!!!!!

It was suggested that there was a lot of shagging going on - and I wondered this - you see all the crowds celebrating on May 8th 1945 - strangers hugging - how many children were conceived that day?????