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It's Raining Men" has often been perceived as a gay anthem. [22] A campaign in Facebook was launched on January 19, 2014, to get the song to UK number one in response to a UKIP councillor blaming recent UK floods and adverse weather on divine retribution for the British government's introduction of gay marriage. [23] The campaign was reported widely and The Weather Girls' version reached number 21 on the first day of the chart week. [24] The song re-entered the UK Singles Chart in 2014 at number 31. [25] In 2017, Rolling Stone included the song on their 25 Essential LGBTQ Pride Songs list. [26] In 2018, Billboard ranked the song at number forty-seven on their The 50 Best Gay Anthems Of All Time list. [27] The Gay UK ranked the song at number two on their Top 40 Gay Anthems for Pride list. [28] This is so a beautifully written story about the hardship of being an extraordinary woman in the men's era. In old times two things determined your place in this world: your gender and the wealth of the family in which you were born. The best place to be was a son of a wealthy family of power. Worst - being an intelligent woman in any family. Why? You´d have to read the book. I think it’s hard for a woman in historical fiction these days not to be railing somehow at the strictures society puts upon her. The creation of Eugene Jonas is a clever way of allowing Neva into places a woman might not be able to enter or where she would be too conspicuous. And Henri’s deliberations about his feelings run true to the notion that we fall in love with an individual rather than a type. The Weather Girls: The Weather Girls Billboard Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on February 10, 2019

They should! Gardner has created a very likeable heroine in Neva Friezland. Not only can she predict the weather but she also knows herself well and understands that the Regency world into which she has been born will not allow her to flourish unless she takes matters into her own hands. This book opens during a Frost Fair on the River Thames. Neva’s Russian father has a stall of the fair where his bear takes on all comers at the game of chess. Unbeknownst to everyone sewn inside the bear is his brilliant wife; capable of beating anyone at chess. Neva is just 3 years old and she is terrified for she can hear the voice of the ice and knows that it is about to break. This is a story about a highly intelligent woman, who doesn't fit into her era. Seems like all of her life will be a struggle. Fortunately, she finds happiness and love. That's all I can tell about the plot without giving away too many details. This is my Book of the Year, I loved every minute of reading it! Beautifully written, it was a winning combination of appealing characters, vivid landscape and period, all dusted over with a sense of otherworldly magic. But most gorgeously rendered of all are the passages relating to the weather. The weather becomes its own character.After graduation, Kirkwood joined the BBC's secretarial reserve in London. After a series of internal moves, she presented short slots on BBC Radio Scotland, and then BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. [4] Following her marriage to Jimmy Kirkwood, she left the BBC and subsequently worked in recruitment and then as a training consultant for a management consultancy in Cheshire. [2] [3] In 1992, she spent time on a now defunct cable TV channel, Windsor TV, latterly called Wire TV, along with Sacha Baron Cohen. [ citation needed] A remix of the song, The Almighty Mix from the Toshiba-EMI series Dance Mania, volume 20, was also featured in the 2002 Japanese video games, DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7thMix and Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME. This version of the song was used as the theme song in the advertisements for New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 2003. In July 2006, the song entered at number 79 on the Mexican Digital Sales Chart, spending two weeks inside the Top 100. The Weather Girls began touring internationally in 2013. In 2018, they released a new single "We Need Love", produced by Torsten Abrolat, Terri B! and featuring, Jason Anousheh. [18] Legacy [ edit ]

Whatever the story, it’s the characters that keep me interested in a novel. There’s a real mixture of personalities here among the chosen family and beyond. Some of the relationships are star-crossed, some unlikely, some parasitic; there is one particular unexpected alliance where the balance of power is not clear. The setting of the Frost Fairs was something I had never read about before. I know there are places in Canada where you can walk on rivers and canals (Quebec and I have done it but very nervously). Realising that The Thames would freeze so that tents, and food stalls could be set up – some of them with fires in them!! was amazing. It gave me goosebumps of the kind I get when I got to a Christmas fair – the chills, the lights, the hot food and the cold air.Just wonderfully evoked.

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Geri Halliwell (2001). It's Raining Men (European CD single liner notes). EMI Records. 7243 8 79327 2 2. Frequently recognised for her sunny “Bye Bye” sign-off, Emma is one of the longest serving weather presenters at ITV. She started as a colourful, quirky regular on national breakfast television, and has had her head in the clouds - and ITV Weather regions - since 1992, also presenting countryside programmes. Emma’s always had a keen interest in the weather, especially since she hails from the North West where there is rather a lot of it... She originally trained to be a vet, but side-stepped into TV. As she made the leap from vet to met, she found that working with exotic species gave her quite a good grounding for a career in television… she's taken part in some heart-stopping, daredevil features over the years. Emma has done every job behind the camera, and worked as a radio journalist before achieving her ambition of joining the ITV Weather team. Somewhat prophetically, her first ever radio report involved covering the hottest day of the year and frying an egg on the pavement – two of her favourite interests, weather and cooking! When she's not scratting around in the garden or the kitchen, this one-woman wildlife feeding station enjoys dinner and a musical, languages and observational comedy, reformer pilates - and when there’s time - sleeping. Kirkwood is the main weather presenter on BBC Breakfast. [4] The programme moved from London to MediaCityUK in Salford in 2012 but Kirkwood stayed in London, presenting the weather on Breakfast via video link. [ citation needed] She presented the BBC's The Weather Show and is also a regular contributor and reporter for The One Show. [3] In 2011, Kirkwood co-presented the BBC One series The Great British Weather. [5] She also presented the weather on BBC Radio 2's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. a b "Top of the Year 2001" (in Romanian). Romanian Top 100. Archived from the original on December 9, 2002 . Retrieved December 9, 2002.