Something completely different...

It’s fifty years since Monty Python was first aired on TV. I was living in Leeds at the time, and a group of friends would convene in the same bed-sit at 8pm every Thursday evening to watch half an hour of anarchic humour. It was only after the first series had finished that one of the group asked “Who’s the guy who sits on the end?” We looked at each other. “I thought he was a friend of yours”. “And I thought he was a friend of yours!” Nobody knew who he was… only that he enjoyed silly walks and spam as much as the rest of us (and presumably didn't own a TV set).

Licensed last week: a few nondescript exhibits from the Laurel and Hardy Museum in Ulverston (the birthplace of Stan Laurel). The 'boys' were, incidentally, a big influence on John Cleese and the rest of the Pythons...