Category: PG Wodehouse

Spring Fever

PG Wodehouse was not one of the hard-faced men who did well out of the war. The men that Evelyn Waugh’s Basil Seal wanted to emulate in Put Out More Flags. 

April Gleanings

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. ( The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon)

I’m Monty

My mother-in-law used to call me Freddie Widgeon, sort of flatteringly.

Cocktail Time

Azina laid her first egg at 6.40 pm yesterday. Nathalie expects others to follow in the coming days.

A Plum Job

I never volunteer for jobs – too much like hard work. The Jameson lazy gene kicks in.

Some Corner of a Foreign Field

When PG Wodehouse was interned in 1940 he had a long and uncomfortable journey to Upper Silesia, spending five weeks in the fort at Huy, a place better viewed from the outside. You will be curious about Huy and may not be quite sure where it is or how to pronounce it.

Squirrel Nutkin

Three fat mice, a fine fat mole, seven fat minnows, six fat beetles (each wrapped in a dock-leaf, fastened with a pine-needle pin), wild honey and a new-laid egg.