Extract from Sunday, 17th January, 1982:
M 2 drove us to Y e Olde White Harte in fine style, arriving at the stroke of noon. Minnie had a hat on.
Extract from Sunday, 24th January, 1982:
A fine mild morning with the sun peeping through and giving some wonderful colours to the winter scenes.
We set off up the Peg Lady's Lane* at a rare rate of knots, last night's beer pouring out of our pores in bucketfuls.
*Editor's Note: The Landlord of the "Royal Oak" once told us that a woman used to walk from King's Cliffe to Duddington every week with a basket of clothes-pegs, using the lane to descend from Fineshade. Ever since, the CU's have called this the 'Peg Lady's Lane'.
We retired to Y e Olde White Harte, where George was so voluble that even Harris was embarrassed. A very interesting little incident occurred when the old chaps produced a vulgar drawing which was handed round and Harris had to look at it without letting M 2 see. It was fairly innocuous, but we had to maintain the decorum, which is not a bad thing. George, of course, tried to insist that she looked, but protocol prevailed.
George has just begun a chorus of "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" with Minnie dressed in a head scarf. How can anyone possibly compete?
Harris is concerned at the sanity of the other members of this illustrious society - George is manic - the stream of verbosity. GB, normally a rational man, conducting the "singing" by using Minnie.
Minnie conducts the massed choir of the C.U.
Extract from Sunday, 14th February, 1982:
Harris claims that he has normal sized legs and that M 2 & I are abnormal!
Henceforth Harris declares that he renounces the title of Little Harris. His taylor informs him that his inside leg measurement of 29" is well within the normal range of 29"-31". As M 2 is 33" & so is Geordie Bill, so it should be Geordie Bill the Big and M 2 the giantess! (And of course George the gargantuan.)
Harris claims that he has now learned to read and write, and wishes to be known as Literate Harris.
