There’s a site called Celebrity Net Worth? Excuse me a minute…

I remember her legs being the object of considerable national interest once when she did some hoofing for Children in Need or some such. You can’t say that about any Dimblebeys.

I assume you were being satirical, @fintinlimbin?

If not, what Mike said with knobs on. Except the bit about sticking around till 90…I think.

Apparently another referendum is an affront to democracy. So say the Leave Means Leave shower, anyway.

Next week I’m going back to the country where 95% of the citizenry is pissed off for one reason or […]

Saw this last night – lovely little true story about Lee Israel, who made a decent living for a while forging letters by the likes of Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward until the law inevitably caught up with her. […]

For her birthday I took the late (and vegetarian) Mrs thep to see A Private Function, a film about fattening up a pig to celebrate the Coronation. Didn’t go down well…

Actually, Palace Cinemas in Oz have film festivals all the time. You could do worse than poke around on their website.

This – it’s absolutely magnificent. Bit like a Colombian Godfather.

I’m currently at a conference in Melbourne. There are a couple of other Brits there, and we all arrived in the conference room this morning with our best WTF faces on. We all felt a long way from home, not that it […]

Everybody seems to be committing political suicide already.

Or: how much older was he than her? That comes up quite a lot.

The Aussie one – don’t think it’s escaped. Here’s a taste.

Emerson, Lake, Palmer.

Have I got this right?

Hank, Bruce, Jet, Tony.

I finally decided that tents and I were through when I got cramp in both legs SIMULTANEOUSLY in a sleeping bag in a 2-man tent.

Good luck anyway.

Agreed – very funny. As is Utopia (same vein as W1A etc) – I love that.

Playing with cold water, more like…

When the current Mrs P and I were, er, tiptoeing round each other, I rashly suggested that Black Books and Green Wing would be a good test of her long-term potential. Luckily, she absolutely loved both of them. Phew.

The Yardbirds track is when Slowhand threw in the towel, on account of the FYLH not being bluesy enough any more. They put the beaty bit in the middle to shut him up IIRC.

My dad’s favourite joke: She was only an admiral’s daughter, but her naval base was full of discharged seamen.

Even I was embarrassed when he first came out with that. I was 25 or so.