David King

That’s the Flower Show not the football, if you’re wondering, so do alight at the next stop if you want to, though goodness knows, they cost about the same to get into.  Actually I didn’t go, not this year, and have deceived you for your attention.  Though I have been three times before, like many

You may have heard of Gryphon, or even heard or seen them.  If you have, you’re probably over 50 and perhaps in your seventies as I am, but the chances are that you have not, and hereby hangs a problem to which I shall return later.  For those who don’t know, Gryphon these days are

Forget ‘serendipity’, that frequent poll-topper; ‘pudding’ is one of my most favourite words, along with ale, beef and pie. How central to our culture is the pudding!  We have Pudding Lane, the seat of the Great Fire of London, although it sounds like the kind of mildly mocking nickname prevalent in my schooldays.  Our ‘Lane’,

In the 1990s tv comedy Keeping Up Appearances, the wonderful Patricia Routledge played Hyacinth Bucket, a middle-aged woman obsessed with etiquette and visible respectability.  Her keen desire for social superiority is surely a sign of deep insecurity, and was the comic dynamo of the sitcom, which lampooned this petit-bourgeois obsession.  As you might expect, Hyacinth’s

I had been intending to make an end of the idiocies and eccentricities of television subtitles with Part 3, but given the bumpy nature of the week’s events (and isn’t that a phrase you could use at any time?) I think it’s time to share with you more subtitle fun.  Especially when ‘bumpy nature’ is