I am qualified in that case, though I fear an objection due to not reading them in the original Russian and French. I just about managed Powell's elegant prose however. Anyhow I prefer PB when i… (View Post)

From a bit of a distance I’m not sure that’s the reason. It’s more what he says and does. (View Post)

Not to mention the creepy long lost cousin from South Africa. (View Post)

Yer carn’t even chant ‘you’ll find Calais lying in my heart’ at the football any more. (View Post)

I can see the farty, sweary, boozy, shaggy side of Shaffer's Mozart, struggling a bit with the Magic Flute thing. Tedious anecdote time, I served Keith Michell mung bean quiche in Aberdeen'… (View Post)