Thank you. I’m on the down slope already I think.

A mercy really that he didn't live to see the current fad for protein...

Not to mention Stanley Green...

Champagne hangovers are the champagne of hangovers.

Excellent.

Remembering, with affection, the editorial conference at which Andreas argued, against considerable opposition from other colleagues, that the news that Prince Charles had broken his arm should go in a News in Brief column on an inside page.

Reminded by a friend of Simon Gray’s remark about Stoppard: “It is actually one of Tom’s achievements that one envies him nothing, except possibly his looks, his talents, his money and his luck. To be so enviable without being envied is pretty enviable, when you think about it.”

No other tomes this week. Many tomes for the next one.

Correct. And it’s very enjoyable.

In other Reliably Funny news.

Thank you. Very smart guests