Sometimes, something happens to completely shake your world, turn your life upside down and leave you wondering just what is it all about?

I had some shattering news this week that left me disturbed, made me reach back into my childhood and reassess if I've been looking at life the wrong way round ever since.

The Banana Splits were the highlights of my Sunday mornings back in the Seventies - weird animals that were a pop band who lived in a badly drawn cardboard making silly jokes and singing pop songs.

They were Fleegle the beagle, Bingo the gorilla, Drooper the lion and Snorky the disturbing-looking elephant and had a hit with their theme tune, The Tra la la Song.

They were followed by a scratchy imported series from France that was always dubbed by the same, slightly foreign sounding fruity, gruff voices. Programmes like The Flashing Blade and Robinson Crusoe.

Anyway, the furry friends have been revived and transplanted into a not-so-cuddly horror film set in the late Sixties when the show was made.

In the thriller, a boy named Harley is celebrating his birthday at a recording of the Banana Splits show when things go horribly wrong and the body count starts to rise.

I should have spotted the danger signs all those years ago. Snorky always looked a wrong-'un.

The horror movie will be called The Banana Splits and is due to be shown later this year through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment before it makes its TV debut on Syfy.

n I don't follow a political group, apart from ABB - Anyone But Boris.

He's the only person in the world who can improve his reputation and respect by becoming a recluse.

He's the Macavity cat of politics.

Perhaps if he does become PM he will be so well managed that we'll never hear of him again.

Our own Rory Stewart is the only candidate in the Tory leadership election who has shown some honesty, integrity and imagination.

The Boris Johnson-supporting Daily Telegraph has tried to attack him by saying he was once a spy.

Well I'd rather have James Bond in charge than Mr Bean.

What people keep forgetting is that when all this voting and posturing is over, the party will remain massively split between the two factions, Parliament will remain massively split and the nation will continue to be divided between Brexiteers and Remainers. A job for Bond, not Bean.