Something Vic wrote some hours back has been ticking slowburn-wise in my head -- "in the company of Bob Copper and he was always on his best behaviour then as well" -- following on from how Valerie & I always found him. But I wonder why "as well". Why should he have been on "best behaviour" with us, I wonder? He would have had a different sort of feeling for Bob, an older & respected mentor; but he wasn't the sort to suck up to one who just happened to be a critic, I should have thought,

Ah, well: these things are mysteries, my children...