Apologies to the fifteen households in the Princess Drive, Highlands, area who didn’t get their Sunday Mail on Christmas Eve. I found the delivery man (Michael) in distress with a broken bicycle chain (and the added difficulty that some well-wisher had slipped some gin into his Mazoe Crush the night before!) so, with my three young sons, I put the bike on top of the car and we spent an uproarious 2 1/2 hours delivering 160 newspapers to puzzled Highlands residents – some of whom, in the confusion, might have got two! Sorry. I haven’t done the round before! In fact – I have not delivered a newspaper since before I was a boy of about 10 in sunny Somerset – memories galore come flooding back on Christmas Eve.
John Lentell – Barum & Sarum
December 31st, 1967
Lentell Soup 
One of my favourite stories. One can only imagine the Highlands’ residents!
BTW John was working on a manuscript called “Lentell Soup in the 70’s. It was already hundreds of pages long. It was typed on his old typewriter (a corona?)
Do you have it Gour?
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I’ll check over the weekend but I’m pretty sure I don’t. Didn’t even know he’d got as far as starting it!
I was racking my brain at one point trying to remember the typewrite brand – thank you 🙂
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