Saturday 17 January 2009

Goodbye, Rumpole

Sad news my friends. John Mortimer, author of the Rumpole of the Baily series of books, has died. There is an article in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/books/17mortimer.html?em

I will miss Rumpole's expressions of love for the Magna Carta and the claret at Pommeroy's Wine Bar, and his adversion to returning home to "She Who Must Be Obeyed."