OCCUPIED COUNTRY

The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

Once again Amazon has entwined and enticed me into buying stuff I really don't need. A David Nobbs Omnibus, a David Nobbs autobiography and a three-in-one Herge's Adventures of TinTin (so I can be 10 years old again).

But I also chanced upon this, which has made me very happy indeed. One of the reviewers has plagiarised Stanshall's prose to praise this little masterwork.

"English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water, Rawlinson End sat armoured and effete." This is true, electric soup poetry. It parodies, and laments the end of an England that never really existed.

A very, very English musical Gormenghast is the only way I can even begin to attempt to describe it.

The Ginger Geezer, a creative genius who is sadly overlooked - probably due to the medium he chose and the times he lived in. Combined with chronic alcoholism you end up with a recipe for oblivion. Which is precisely where he ended up. Well here's to you Viv, one day....one day.......