I have never been an incandescent sort of person. In truth, you would probably have to dowse me with 100% proof spirit and toss a lighted match in my direction to inflame me about anything. I just have this congenital belief that the other chap may not be talking total rubbish and that I should, in fairness, listen to him even if what he is saying sounds like utter piffle.
There does. however, come a point when the meekest of worms must turn and I have wriggled to that point. I have read the works of many authors and enjoyed them. There are those who have enthralled me.
Obviously AA Milne. As it happened to happen for me, Dorothy L Sayers, Jules Verne, Isaac Aasimov, Thorne Smith, James Thurber and others too numerous to mention. In due and happy course, I encountered PG Wodehouse.
He has been my constant companion and delight ever since. As far as I know, I have every one of his books, sometimes several times over. Which is why I am seriously considering self-combusting about the forthcoming BBC ‘Blandings’ series.
As any fule kno, Lord Emsworth is a vague, tall, thin, balding sort of cove. Auntie Beeb, whom God rot, have seen fit to cast Timothy Spall in the part.
Timothy bloody Spall? Undoubtedly a fine actor but more suited to playing Lord Emsworth’s prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, or Beach the butler in my opinion.
It will end in tears.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I always fessed up to being Vesuvian!
PS Who the hell is Timothy bloody Spall? (rhetoric)
Auf wiedersehen then.
There is worse, JM – a photo of the cast with Lord E wearing a top hat and SMILING! The only reasonably appropriate one seems to be Freddie, looking natty but vacuous.
Afternoon JM. I feel the same about the proposed remake of The Dambusters, but I shall watch an episode of Blandings nevertheless, although it appears from the trailers that none of the cast nor crew has ever read any PGW.
Off topic, I was absolutely delighted over the festive period to re-acquire a much missed copy of ‘How to be Topp’, which, as any fule kno, was the fourth in the trilogy.
OZ