I’m Monty

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

“Frederick “Freddie” Fotheringay Widgeon is a recurring fictional character in the Drones Club stories. He is a member of the Drones Club and depends on an allowance from his uncle Lord Blicester. In Ice in the Bedroom, he has a lowly job with Mr Shoesmith, a solicitor with Shoesmith, Shoesmith, Shoesmith and Shoesmith. Freddie has a trusting and unsuspicious nature. His trust in others is a byword, and he believes everything he reads in Time. He is a friend of Bertie Wooster and Bertie’s rival in the Drones Club Darts Sweep in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.
He is known in the club for often falling in love and getting rejected. One Egg says “I wish I had a quid for every girl Freddie Widgeon has loved and lost”, and a Bean says “I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved and lost were placed end to end they would reach half-way down Piccadilly”. He eventually goes coffee-farming in Kenya with Sally Foster.” (Wikipedia)

In fact I’m Monty Bodkin sharing his slight grasp of French and inability to decide what to write about. “He paused wondering how to begin.” (The Luck of the Bodkins, PG Wodehouse)

“Monty Bodkin is a recurring fictional character in three novels of English comic writer PG Wodehouse, being a wealthy young member of the Drones Club, well-dressed, well-spoken, impeccably polite, and generally in some kind of romantic trouble.” (Wikipedia)

Well, I don’t know how to begin, so I will stop.