The long silence is attributable to The National Novel Writing Month in which I am participating. We are to dash off 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30. I am past 22,000 as on November 10. Sadly my novel is not about Plum or Plum's c...

Thanks to Barbara Combs for pointing this out to me. Heywood Hill has a contest called Plum Idol going in which you vote for your favourite quotation from Wodehouse amongst some on offer. The contest closes on November 16 - so hurry! Let em kno...

Many of us started reading Plum when we were fairly young. I wonder do youngsters read Plum these days? Do they read much of him or not at all? I realize that his stories are dated in terms of a very different era but the language was captivating...

Here is Plum's first review in The Times. This was dug out from the archives for 1921 "I think this the funniest story I have ever written" wrote Wodehouse about "Three Men and A Maid". We know he has written many more funnier stories and given...

Eggs, Beans & Crumpets. Lend me your ears. Let's wish The Master a Happy Birthday on his 128th birth anniversary. Plum as you know was born on October 15, 1881. What ho! What ho!! What ho!!!

Some weeks ago I came across a movie called Picadilly Jim on one of the TV movie channels. I jumped at the chance of actually seeing a Wodehosue movie, but to my dismay it was an updated version of the story, with all the fun and charm removed to ...

Charles Moore had this review on Plum in The Telegraph. Evelyn Waugh called him " the head of my profession" and Charles Moore says he is the "patron saint" of writers. Well said!

Delighted to see P G Wodehouse on Twitter. I wish he/she were more active:)