Thame is a small market town in Oxfordshire. There is a restaurant there which used to be called “Thatcher’s”; it has now been renamed ‘The Old Trout’.

If you hold a shell suit to your ear you can hear Romford.

‘Persons found collecting balls on this golf course will be prosecuted and have their balls removed’

Notice on golf course, I forget where, but I think it was in the west country:

Anne McKenzie recalls from her childhood ‘The family on the next farm to us on the Isle of Lewis had two children, both of which they named Murdo. Asked if they did not get confused by their sons having the same name they replied “Oh no, you see they were both named after two different people”.’

‘Scottish Anecdotes’, produced for the Save The Children Fund

Garden shed for sale, unused. Reason for sale: husband won’t erect.

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