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Malone, thanks for the opportunity for me to be pedantic: wouldn't say I 'enjoyed' R Steward - the steward was a pleasant chap who directed us to our seats, and may well have been designated as being between a Q steward an S, but we didn't get into that.

Rossim, thanks for the Dog's Welcome - a typical horror!


Steve, sorry about adding a Steward to the Stewarts. Life can be confusing for me at times - especially when I'm doing crosswords and giving only a passing glance to posts!

I had one of my shivers (a PU shiver) when I read something in the paper yesterday. It was referring to an actor's career and listed three films, then added 'the latter making ….' I don't know what's so difficult about using 'last'.

Grunger

With your (alleged) interest in pies, I am bringing your attention to a BBC programme, to be aired on 24th June. It's an episode of 'Our Lives' , with the sub-heading being 'Life Of Pies'. It follows people as they prepare for the British Pie Awards in Melton Mowbray.

Heard on BBC radio this morning during a discussion about football.
'We got beat three nil'. Arggggh!

Thanks, Rossim - that provoked a 'grrrrrrr' from me. I haven't been as pedantic as usual where the papers are concerned . I think all the Brexit and Tory leadership battle stuff has lead to me skimming articles now, even on innocuous topics.

Not really for PU, but (some) pedants here might like it - a TV listing from Saturday's Guardian "Guide".

Britain's Next PM - The Channel 4 Debate
That the UK is bound for hell in a hand-assisted vehicle, there is little doubt. All that remains is to discover which of these escapees from Pandora's box will taxi us there; a more wretched collection of dissemblers, idiots, narcissists and people who have mistakenly taken drugs is difficult to imagine under one studion roof, but here we are. An asbestos clad Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the contenders before an audience drawn from across this broken isle. God actually help us.

Actually, there is a missing "Oxford comma" after "narcissists.

btw Krishnan was in my form for three years. He gave the valedictory speech, saying I had been "quite a good form-master really".

"studio", of course!

Malone

It is so exciting. I was picked up and taken to the airport where I received a text message. I replied "R U R STEWARD?" I received a rather abrupt "No I am not your steward. I am your stewardess, Honor Flite".

I apologised for my careless typo. Honor told me that her husband dealt with passengers who arrived too late for check-in. "What's his name?" I asked. "Mister Flite, of course" she said.

It turned out that I am on tour not with Rod or Rory, but Ron Stewart, the great bluegrass musician. It is a lot of fun and I am now in a hotel "Business Center". I convinced the receptionist that I had urgent trans-Atlantic "business" to transact so they let me post this. I am fed up with "gotten", "liters", "centers" etc., and this weird keyboard is confusing me but I have got another week of it.

I remember Honor's husband's Irish grandmother (before his father Anglicised their surname), the magistrate famous for never giving tough sentences: Gert O'flite. (Groan.)

I really do remember seeing Honor Blackman in a one-woman-and-pianist show called Dishonourable Ladies. I must have been very slow that day, as I only 'got it' at the interval.

Grunger,

Your tour sounds amazing, and I'm glad you're having fun. As a true pedant, you will respect the language and idiom of your surroundings, so I know you will cope with the liters, centers etc. I'm sure that the words 'have a nice day' won't feature in any conversations once you have returned.

I liked Honor Flite, she sounds like one of jigjag's cronies.

Steve, your punning names rate very highly … on the cringe-ometer scale!