Les Tremayne

            On Sunday morning I worked out the chords to the first half of the intro of "J'ai pas d'regret" (I've No Regrets) by Boris Vian. 

            I memorized the first verse of "Entre autre, pas en traître" (I Took You for Another Not a Traitor) by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            When I went into the bedroom to get my guitar there was a bedbug at the upper right hand corner of the frame of the old exit door at the head of my bed. 

            I weighed 85.6 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I've been in the morning in a month and a half. 

            I filled in what might be a mouse hole at the northeast corner of my kitchen. I should borrow one of David's snakes to see if they can take care of the little pests. 

            I fixed up a few more of my early Christian's Translations blogs, adding the names of my translations in the titles and adding videos. For some of the songs there are YouTube videos of me singing them and so I added those. 

            I weighed 85.2 kilos before lunch. That's the most I've weighed at that time in three weeks. I had a toasted Montreal style bagel with Mexican salami and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of half lemonade and half cranberry juice. 

            I took a siesta and when I got up at 15:40 it was raining so it looked like I wouldn't be taking a bike ride. But I really needed the exercise and so I did a couple of yoga poses. I kept checking out my window to see the degree of puddle splashing that the rain was making. It seemed to be easing off and so I took a bike ride at about 16:15 but at that hour it was too late to go all the way downtown so I just rode as far as Bloor and Ossington. 

            I weighed 85.3 kilos at 17:15, which is the heaviest I've been at that time in a month and a half. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 18:00. 

            I continued to work on editing my old Christian's Translations blog posts so that they include the names of my translations and have functioning videos attached. I made it to May 18, 2015, which is the one for "Un violon, un jambon" and my translation, "A Ham and a Fiddle". I have YouTube videos of me performing those and so I still need to post them before I move on to the next blog post. 

            I fried my last four strips of bacon and an egg, and toasted my last Montreal style bagel. I had them with a beer while watching season 3, episodes 13 and 14 of The Beverly Hillbillies.

            Coincidentally the first is a New Years story. The Clampetts discover that Mrs. Drysdale is in the hospital and they decide to go and visit her. Granny is also preparing her extremely potent nerve medicine to give to her. The Clampetts don't realize that Margaret has gone to the hospital to escape them. Mr. Drysdale flies in a specialist who says Margaret is physically healthy but he thinks she is suffering from delusions about having hillbilly neighbours who keep wild animals. He gives her medication to put her to sleep. 

            Jed and Jethro come to visit her but are turned away downstairs and so they go up the fire escape and climb in through the window. They locate Margaret's room and find it gloomy so they open the window and move her bed over to it so she can see the sun when she wakes up. Jethro is curious about the buttons on her bed and pushes some of them, then they leave. But after they are gone Margaret's bed tilts up and she and her mattress slides out the window. Fortunately she lands on the mattress in the bushes. The specialist thinks she tried to escape and doubles the dose of her medication.

            Then the Clampetts come back with Granny this time but since Margaret is asleep they can't give her the nerve medicine. So they move her bed back to the window, Jethro fiddles with the buttons again and they leave. She goes out the window again. This time the doctor triples her medication. 

            The Clampetts come back and the same thing happens again, but this time when they leave they find Margaret in the bushes. They think the hospital threw her out. She's still sleeping and so they put her on her mattress on the truck and take her to their house. 

            The second story is a continuation of the previous one. Mr. Drysdale learns that his wife has gone missing from the hospital. Margaret wakes up in the Clampett mansion but is too groggy to escape. 

            Jane is in Margaret's hospital room trying to deduce how she went missing. Just then Jed and Jethro sneak Margaret's mattress back into the room. Jane figures out that it was Jethro's playing with the buttons on the bed that caused Margaret to slide out the window. She tries to show Mr. Drysdale what happened but before she can, the head doctor comes to the door to talk with her. Drysdale pushes some buttons and slides out the window, causing him to be admitted to the hospital after they retrieve him. 

            Meanwhile Granny wants to give Margaret some nerve tonic and she runs away. But Jethro catches her and they force it down. She gets really high and goes running around on the lawn thinking she is Tinkerbell. 

            Jane comes with the doctor to take Margaret back to the hospital. The Clampetts go to the hospital to get the Drysdales. They disguise themselves in surgical robes and masks. Granny gives them both her nerve tonic and they are high as kites as Margaret is wheeled out in a linen basket and Drysdale in a wheelchair. Back at the house they are leaping on the lawn thinking they are Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. 

            The specialist in the first story was played by Les Tremayne, who came from England to the States at the age of four. He took up acting in community theatre to lose his British accent. He became a dancer on Vaudeville and a barker in amusement parks. He began working in radio in the 1930s and his voice became a sought after commodity because of its tone and versatility. He became the leading man on two popular radio soap operas. He began playing Nick Charles in The Adventures of the Thin Man. He became the announcer on the Bob Crosby Show. He starred in The Falcon and The Abbott Mysteries. He co-starred in the Jackie Gleason/Les Tremayne Show. In the 1950s he began to work in television and movies. He co-starred in The War of the Worlds, The Monolith Monsters, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, The Slime People, Creature of Destruction, Strawberries Need Rain, Snakes, and The Angry Red Planet. He played Major Stone in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and George Nader on The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen. 

            I searched for bedbugs and found none. 

            I edited a few more of my Christian's Translations blog posts from May of 2015.