To all of you young un’s who ain’t got there yet this is the sort of thing that happens to you to show you are getting o-l-d
Sitting watching ‘East of Ipswich’ a film based loosley on Michael Palins experiences as a teenager on a Southwold family holiday circa 1958. ( Had a couple of obligitory Rockers on Bonnevilles in it by the way ).
I say to missus - "Yea I remember that - came out about 8 years ago "
1987? Yeah, I remember that - 'bout 4 or 5 years ago, wasn’t it?
Hmm… let’s think about that… I remember that storm but I slept through it. Just as well as my son was a baby and didn’t normally sleep through - bloody hell, he’s 20 in a couple of weeks! EEEK!
Don’t rub it in - It’s made worse by the fact that two of the actors are dead - and they’ve been dead for 18 years!
Joan Grigson ( from Please Sir! and played the deaf old bat in Fawlty Towers…) was one of them Allan Cuthbertson was the other ( who played the Colonel in the Fawlty Towers ‘Gourmet Night’ ) …