Dear Tayla
Pleased to see you again and I'm sorry abut the gastro, I've had a Covid booster recently and it did not do anything to me, so maybe you are just unlucky. A very debilitating condition. did you take any electrolytes? I found they helped a bit with the dehydration and energy levels when I've had the same.
Yes I think in a quiet way Derek makes YM/YPM. So often he feeds straight lines to Sir Humphrey but occasionally comes out with something of his own and really shines. I guess he's the most empathetic character and maybe my favorite too.
I like Sir Humphrey, but in a different way, it is more for his command of language:
"Well, Prime Minister ā¦ one hesitates to say this but there are times when circumstances conspire to create an inauspicious concatenation of events that necessitate a metamorphosis, as it were, of the situation such that what happened in the first instance to be of primary import fraught with hazard and menace can be relegated to a secondary or indeed tertiary position while a new and hitherto unforeseen or unappreciated element can and indeed should be introduced to support and supersede those prior concerns not by confronting them but by subordinating them to the over-arching imperatives and increased urgency of the previously unrealised predicament which may in fact now, ceteris paribus, only be susceptible to radical and remedial action such that you might feel forced to consider the currently intractable position in which you find yourself."
etc
What he means is of course "Unlucky, you should resign!"
I wish I could talk like that , I could sail though life with everyone not understanding a word but convinced they should have:)
Croix
