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Thread #120107 Message #2619394
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
27-Apr-09 - 05:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
Subject: RE: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
The series ran from 25-30 December 1986
I don't doubt it, Rifleman; my alarm was that it was so long ago! Still, each Christmas without fail Monty is high on the agenda, be it in print, or on TV, or record. Last year I was reading Phil Rickman's The Fabric of Sin, set around the enigmatic Templar church at Garway where he alludes to a spooky incident that befell Monty during his visit there in 1917, after which he wrote to Gwendolen McBryde, "We must have offended something or somebody at Garway... Next time we shall know better". Having been to Garway, I can well believe it...
Lest someone point it out before I do myself, all of the "elipses" in my above post should be spelled with a double L, as in "ellipsis."
It was tempting, Don, but saving the odd bad egg, are we not gentlemen after all?