Hello, Bob;

01 Aug 04 13:40, Bob Lawrence wrote to Robert Bull:

 BL>  Nobody wanted to watch England get murdered by Australia? I can

  Hardly!  (or the Windies, but, ISTR it -was- Oz on that 
occasion).

 BL>  Arrgh! You've made me remember his name! I swore that I'd remove him
 BL> from my memory (but the scarf remains).

I think either the next Dr - Colin Baker, the burly one, no relation to the 
one you don't like - had to have a scarf to start with.

 BL>  Aha! I think you may have hit on the real reason I thought Dr Who
 BL> was brilliant... the little dolly-birds in the short skirts (but my
 BL> heart belongs to Mrs Peel).

If you were in your twenties at the time, they would have a certain appeal  
:-)  Was Ms. Peel Diana Rigg, or am I thinking of another series?

 BL>  What a strange mind you have. How do you segue from Alice to Bonny
 BL> and Clyde?

I didn't, Radio 3 (BBC classical music network) did.  They were looking at 
composers who died in 1934 and then looked around a bit wider.  No, I don't 
know why they picked that year, unless maybe several composers happened to 
fall off their twigs then.

 BL>  Not so great. Bonnie and Clyde were on J Edgar's most-wanted list,
 BL> and I'm still trying to get my head around the idea of J Edgar Hoover
 BL> in a party frock. Reality? Lewis Carroll made more sense than that. At
 BL> least his Queen was mostly female.

Well...  it was before drag queens were -officially- invented...  ;-)

     Regards,

              Robert.

Just finished:  BLOOD WORK  by Michael Connelly.  OK, but nowhere near as 
     good as THE BLACK ECHO.
Just finished:  EARTHFASTS  by William Mayne.  A later book by one of the 
     UK's leading children's authors.  Weak ending.

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