I suppose one occasionally does miss things not watching (non-Arabic) television, so I'm grateful that the YouTube gods conjured up this lovely profile in my Recommendations this morning.

In the fall of 1964, Miss Petula Clark might well have had a few concerns about her career...

Miss Bunton has a Petula Clark moment. And who can blame her? Happens to the best of us.

During her first round of fame, she managed the not inconsiderable feat of being Least Annoying Spice; in the years since, she's had a spotty career but gamely kept at it. She's certainly having fun here.

On the strength of this and her "Maybe" video, I'm prepared to be amused by her on a longer-term basis. She seems both to have a remarkably good sense of her own limits and to be perfectly happy to work within them.

Of how many evanescent stars can this be said?