2006 — Day 39 - reasons to be cheerful: part 3

"Today's the day¹⁰ the teddy bears have their picnic;" or do I mean retirement dinner?

Actually, following chum Len's flying visit¹¹ last night, there's another reason to be cheerful. He has lent us the Alan Plater series Get lost! which dates from 1981 and is (it seems) a prequel to the wonderful "Beiderbecke" trilogy in much the same way as The American President is a prequel to the sublime West Wing. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you have missed some marvellous viewing.

After dinner speech

I thought a single verse of AP Herbert's After-dinner would be just about perfect for the no-longer-hungry little throng this evening (you know who you are; thank you all for coming!). It was republished in Laughing Ann and other poems and dates from (I suspect) the early 1920s; it first appeared in Punch¹² — I'm tempted to say "obviously" but I guess that's not so obvious these days.

I will not make a speech tonight,
   I have not had sufficient wine;
It is not just, it is not right
   To ask a fellow out to dine
And treat him in this kind of way —
   I will not make a speech, I say.

AP Herbert

Nasty rumour re IE7 and my footnotes

I'm told my footnotes are still appearing squashed. Can the complainant point to an offending example, please? I thought I had squashed this squash bug... <Sigh>

12 December 2006

Footnotes

¹⁰  Don't forget to record the Cult TV examination of Blake's 7 tonight! Servalan rules... (would you not agree, Ian?)
¹¹  Did you manage to recover your XP system, or did you have to re-install that wonderful operating system? I think we should be told!
¹²  What on earth do people read in dentists' waiting rooms these days, I wonder?