Golly, do they? I lead a very sheltered life and would appreciate enlightenment. Is this the Muppetts, the Magic Flute or a stage version of the Chronicles of Narnia?

Flinging the dwyle at cars: an interesting suggestion. In this country one sometimes encounters young hopefuls offering to wash the windscreens of cars stuck in traffic jams for money; I don't know where the practice originated. In dwyle-flunking at the Lewes Arms, a car-driver will occasionally insist on bringing a car across the pitch. I have been arguing for some years that when this happens we should offer to wash his windscreen with the contents of the bucket unless he puts some money in the charity collection.

Valmai (Lewes)