Avid readers of this blog (if such there be) may have noticed that I'm a Wodehouse fan.
Recently, I was re-reading Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, and in the closing pages came up short. I read this: 'they had both, in another age, known a man named Bertie Wodehouse-Bonner.'
I must have read Scoop at least three times before, and have no recollection of this reference! I'm astonished.
PS A prize of four Marian anthems (.pdf files) to anyone who can name either of the characters who had known Bertie Wodehouse-Bonner without looking them up.
PPS No, don't cheat! If you want the anthems anyway, just tell me.
ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news
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“When,” you ask, “did the sun rise in Rome today? I respond: “06:24.” “And
when will it set?” “19:56. “Did you hear the Ave Maria Bell last night at
20:15...
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