Lynn Benfield : Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?
Alan Partridge : The good news.
Lynn Benfield : Well, Rawlinson's say you can have another fifty of the shop-soiled chocolate oranges if you plug them [on the radio] again tomorrow.
Alan Partridge : Excellent. And the bad news?
Lynn Benfield : The accountants say that since you've definitely not got a second series at the BBC you're going to have to sack everyone at Pear Tree Productions and close the office down. Otherwise they're going to declare you bankrupt on Friday.
Alan Partridge : Right. Still, good news about the chocolate oranges.
06 Feb 22
@fmf saidThere was a bad fire in our kitchen when I was a young teen and almost everything was destroyed and the family had to scrimp and save for ages afterwards as the damage was repaired and stuff was replaced.
Have you ever had to cling to small blessings in the face of substantial or relentless adversity?
I remember deriving some small modicum of solace from the fact that our superb four-slot egg poacher ~ a lightweight pan with nested moulds, which turned out perfectly shaped poached eggs time after time ~ had somehow survived the destruction intact.