Something Completely Different.

Just to take a welcome break from all this corona stuff, I thought I’d relate a snippet of conversation between the arch ne’er-do-well, Professor Marcus, and dear, dotty old Mrs Wilberforce in The Ladykillers (original Ealing version.) I watched it last night.

‘Who is that?’ asks the Professor suspiciously when he hears a voice downstairs.

‘That’s only General Gordon,’ replies Mrs Lopsided with a dismissive air. ‘He belonged to my late husband. I had four.’

‘Husbands?’

‘No. Parrots.’