Can re-confirm. Here’s this librarian enjoying my favourite drink. A cardie and Coke.

We were watching Against All Odds once in Canterbury, and there’s a bit where Rachel Ward calls after Jeff Bridges “Terry, wait!”
This was while the archbishop’s tallest hostage negotiator was jetting round the front pages. Whole crowd laughed out loud.

Still can’t get used to there being another Vincent H.

He popped up on a podcast earlier in the year and I thought yes, let’s return to Carl. Didn’t yet, AND I’ve forgotten which podcast it was. I’ll buy it for the library.

If That Sinking Feeling’s not on there, I’m throwing my chaise longue right out the gazebo.

I suspect you of deliberately tossing the sausage to allow you to make this admittedly admirable joke. Rather as I suspect Dorothy Parker went to all that trouble of buying and housing a parrot, and naming him Onan cos she just couldn’t wait to do her ‘Because he spills his seed on the ground’ joke.

Most of ‘em wouldn’t even pass a foreground check.

Deer, deer, deer.

Ooh Gary Davies or Steve Wright (Inane Buffoon) were the very souls I had in mind. Not surprised to hear of your friend’s mother’s experience - the Antiques Roadtrip seems like a rolling project of a) the good- humoured extortion of honest traders and b) trying the patience of auction goers.

Sorry to butt in but he is unpleasant isn’t he? Trying to identify the precise tone of it and I realised he has the air of a Radio 1 disc jockey out on the Roadshow. Wonnacott is the same but from, as it were, the Pete Murray generation.

Not enough Nazis, is that the problem Ms Loomer? Is that what you’re saying?

I’m sure there was an ancient Tory member in the shires when I was growing up called the Hon. ‘Flap’ Jack Pysse-Madeira.
Can that be true?

Joe’s updated the decor

This is an Andrew Male line, and it always has been.

Wasn’t there a track left off Machine Head called When a Blind Man Cries?

This has given me a very funny image of your family christmas tree and under it are three or four actual size penguins, wrapped without disguise, just standing in a row. Tee hee!