People who can't do accents

There's lots of things I idly wish I could do:

I'd like to be able to go into a pub, sit down at the piano and belt out a show-stopper.

Or be able to run up a hill as quick as Anne can walk up one.

Or be able to build a defensive wall around my vegetable seedlings that the sparrows didn't perch on giggling.

But most of all I've always wanted to be able to do accents.
Absolutely hopeless at them. Can't impersonate anyone. My welsh sounds pakistani, my american sounds australian. At a push I can do Roland Gift singing "She drives me crazy". Just that one line mind, and it isn't easy to force that into conversations to showcase my virtuosity. I only manage it about once a week.

So, a big thumbs-up to Saskia Reeves on Luther last night for treating us to the worst cockney accent since Dick Van Dyke. What makes it even more a thing of utter beauty is that apparently she's a Londoner. Saskia, I salute you.



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