Gef’s Daily Roundup

Pup

Manx Wildlife Trust is celebrating the first Calf seal pup of the year, which was born yesterday and given the rather cute name of Xanadu, which we assumed is from the Olivia Newton John film of the same name.

Shots Shots Shots

Shots will be officially getting smaller on September 30, with the Office of Fair Trading reminding licensees and managers of pubs, nightclubs, restaurants and other licensed premises to prepare and alter prices accordingly.

The changes apply to the following drinks, when sold for consumption on licensed premises:

• Gin, rum, vodka, whisky and brandy must be sold in quantities of 25ml (or multiples) and NOT the current one fluid ounce (1/5 gill).
• Fortified wines, such as sherry, port and Madeira, sold in the glass must be sold in quantities of 50 ml or 70 ml (or multiples).
• All other wines sold in the glass are deregulated if sold in quantities of less than 75 ml.

John Peet, Head of OFT said: ‘We recognise the argument to retain the Isle of Man’s uniqueness and in normal circumstances would wish to retain it. However, a situation where illegal measuring instruments, or even a mix of legal and illegal measuring instruments, were used in licensed premises could not be allowed.’

Bowie

David Bowie’s acting career is to be celebrated with a set of eight postage stamps from the Isle of Man
Post Office. The ‘David Bowie: Actor’ stamps, which go into circulation from 12 September, honour five
Bowie films as well as his Broadway performance in The Elephant Man, the BBC television adaptation of
Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal and a special stamp titled ‘The Final Portrait’ which shows Bowie in his last
photoshoot.

The David Bowie acting performances featured in the stamp collection are his roles as Bernie in
Everybody Loves Sunshine (filmed on the Isle of Man in early 1998), Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth,
Major Jack Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, the title role in Baal, John Merrick in The Elephant
Man, Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski in Just a Gigolo and Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell
to Earth.