[Lois Elaine Heckman]

Fantastic to have my name included for an HM next to such illustrious winners!!!
Congratulations to you all for your hilarious poems and a big thank you to Jayne for her encouragement!

[Brian Allgar]

Bother! They've picked my second-best entry again instead of the one I sent under my own name. Oh, well - that's another bottle of whisky that Holbrook owes me.

[John Whitworth]

I thought the name was familiar. Double congratultions.

[Brian Allgar]

Nah, John, only single (as in malt). Still, it was a successful bit of recycling, and twenty-five quid under any other name would smell as sweet.

Congratulations to the others. You can always rely on Bazza to come up with a knocking-shop.

[Graham King]

Did Tessa really spell it 'hardwear' shop- instead of hardware? Dear me, such a mistake for the Oldie! Surely Jayne didn't introduce the error.

Never mind, by making me focus on hardware the typo has brought to mind The Two Ronnies' immortal 'four candles' sketch of blessed memory. All is forgiven. Thanks to whomever due!

[John Whitworth]

Bazza, you are strangely touching.

[Jayne Osborn]

Did Tessa really spell it 'hardwear' shop- instead of hardware? Dear me, such a mistake for the Oldie! Surely Jayne didn't introduce the error.

Oh, heck, Graham -- I'm afraid I have to hold my hands up to that one; 'twas indeed I wot made the error on this occasion!

I usually have to ask the lovely Joe at The Oldie to send me the comp results as a pdf but I was out all day and came home, after office hours, to find the magazine waiting for me. Nothing for it but to type out the page -- hence the clumsy mistake (now corrected).

However, I'm very grateful for the vote of confidence in your last sentence, albeit undeserved!

Jayne

[basil ransome-davies]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Bazza, you are strangely touching.

And you, John, are most kind. Thank you.