Showing posts with label Patricia Routledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patricia Routledge. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2014

Music Monday ~ Patricia Routledge, Julia McKenzie, 3rd Decan Aquarius.

We're approaching the last knockings of Aquarius, third decan, with an undercurrent of Libra/Venus, so they say. Who might be a good poster-person to represent this decan, bearing in mind that Libra/Venus is artistic, often musical. Aquarius/Uranus is often fairly bright but something of a natural oddball; others might find that either fun, or irritating.



Patricia Routledge has a birthday today. People in the USA, those who watch PBS anyway, will recognise her as Hyacinth Bucket in the British TV series Keeping Up Appearances .

As her linked Wikipedia page proves, Ms Routledge has had a long and varied career. She was born in 1929, still going strong! Who knew, though, that her singing voice was so splendid?
Not me.





Also with a birthday today, another lady, also British as it happens, whose talents range from straight acting to singing and musical comedy on stage and screen.

Julia McKenzie, born 1941, also still going strong. Viewers in the USA, (PBS again) might remember her in the BBC drama series Cranford, playing Mrs. Forrester, a military widow, very attached to her cow Bessie. I haven't found a really good video example of Ms McKenzie singing - but there's this: