Several lines from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, currently playing at the Young Vic with Jane Horrocks (left), have a timely resonance.
For all her sharp-shooting, Annie Oakley emerges as a low impact woman: no diamonds, no pearls, no mansion, no yacht, no silver and no gold. Even wiser:
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night
Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well
under way | Sara Hudston
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*Bridport, Dorset:* Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse,
there is a bounty of ciders to be sampled. Talk, though, is of this year’s
awful...
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