[John Whitworth]

Bill Greenwell takes the fiver. Frank Osen and Janet Kenny also star. We are back in strength. Well done.

The new competition is for prose but I might dip my toe in.

NO. 2720: odd job
Harold Pinter wrote for the Dick Emery Show and Samuel Beckett was tempted by a career in grocery trade journalism. You are invited to supply a piece of prose written by a well-known author working in an unlikely context (150 words maximum).