----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Larrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] IKEA - was Re: Grantham trailboats and trip-boats wanted
> Niall wrote: >> >> Is that an Alan Coren reference, or something more obvious I've >> missed? > > Well spotted, that man! Two gold stars and twenty house points! > I first read "The Sanity Inspector" many years ago, probably some time before I should have, so the doings of Sir Henry Souvenir are indelibly impressed on my brain. That's one of the best of his articles, along with the one about the Gerbils, and the wonderful tale of a foreign holiday, an Athens Airport duty free shop bag containing vextap (whatever that is) and a dead tortoise named Doris Maurice. -- Niall
