I do Sybil impression
when Basil comes past me. Chance to do one liners from F Towers
Woman
buys Rhubarb and Custard Sweets. I do the tune. She looks at me blankly. Same
with person ignorant of Basil Fawlty
People ignorant of
Basil Fawlty and Rhubarb and Custard 70s cultural icons both. Dumbing down I
think
Young couple have
great grand dad who is 100. He was in the Navy during the War. Tell them they
ought to write his life
Almonds. I am told
that they smell like strychnine I tell a shopper. A friend of mine who is a
doctor once saw a copy of the medical Tripos for Cambridge for 1911 in a second
hand book shop. She told me that it was broadly similar to the one she took
although perhaps not the same reliance on strychnine. On the question of
almonds there is a 16th century expression “feeding almonds to the parrot"
which means bribing officials, if press reports and police investigations are
to be believed it seems to go on with some officers in an authority not too far
from Leek.
