The trombone is not an instrument for a gentleman

[alexsarll]

As much as I love PG Wodehouse, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, I feel eight episodes of Jeeves & Wooster in one sitting was perhaps mildly excessive. It's not normally a problem keeping Wodehouse's characters straight, since they all fit a fairly limited number of types, but when you go through so many stories at once - and several key characters change actor halfway through - it does get a bit much.
Good pie, though.

What kind of excuse for a world do we live in where a man can be struck by lightning in a stone circle and all it does is cripple him? What's worse, the poor sap, having failed to realise the full horrific potential of this parallel, now says "The experience hasn't left me with a fear of lightning; in fact, I feel invincible now. The chances of being struck are millions to one - and I do believe lightning doesn't strike twice." He's obviously unaware of the park ranger who's now been struck seven times.

Comments

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Re: Wodehouse I had exactly the same experience a while ago as the boxset was going cheap on Play.com, as individual episodes I adore them but all together they seem to have rather rapidly diminishing returns.

By the by, as a red wine man I thought I should let you know, there is a fantastic St Emilion in Tesco reduced from 12 english pounds to 6, if you fancy treating yourself to a late easter present, though they've cunningly not advertised this on the shelves - it's the baron de courcelle 2005, top shelf, white label. mmmm, wine.

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[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I would be unsurprised if the same offer had brought this box set to its owner. As regards the wine - thank you for the tip, though the blighters have done this just as we enter the phase of the year where I'm less consistently about the red.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I would be unsurprised if the same offer had brought this box set to its owner.

Half price in Virgin.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. Or slouch corrected, to be precise.