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."