Well thank you one and all. I am touched. A birthday thought to all of us from an old friend of mine who used to win occasional Speccie comps (prose ones). I don't know whether they get The Spectator in Heaven. he liked French food and drink which I am sure they DO get. Anyway, he aid, 'Who wants to be ninety?' (He was nearly that). The answer is, 'Everybody who is eighty-nine.' A GREAT TRUTH.
Yes, I know about the Canadian John Whitworth. He once got a cheque of mine. Of course he sportingly sent it back, little wotting the countless Canadian dollars... Now, wellwishers, don't forget there is a competition to do. I've done mine. I did it when I was still sixty-three, composing the bulk of it while swimming slowly up and down the beautiful, Swedish designed baths of Faversham. Yes, that's the place where the famous Elizabethan murder took place.
Aquatic John
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