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Celebrating P G Wodehouse- What Ho! What Ho! What Ho!

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Remember I posted about the Wodehouse quotes contest at the Plum Idol event organised at Heywood Hill? More than 200 favourite quotes from Wodehouse were posted at their web site. The quote that won with the most votes was: “As for Gussie Fink-Not…
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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 cha…
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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 know…
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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.…
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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 u…
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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!!!
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Prem Rao commented on Prem Rao's blog post 'Plum on Twitter'
Gosh I like this theme- imagine Gussie Fink-Nottle tweeting about newts, the Earl of Emsworth about pigs and their diet and Jeeves about the psychology of the individual:)
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Come to think of it, it would be hilarious if our favourite characters from Plum used Twitter. What do you think they would say? I am sure Clarence would use up all 140 characters for saying " What,what,what, eh, what?"
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I have given the link, old chap. http://twitter.com/pgwodehouse Sadly the person is not too active.
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Eh, what? Where on Twitter?
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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!
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Delighted to see P G Wodehouse on Twitter. I wish he/she were more active:)
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Remember I wrote a few days ago about the exhibition called " Plum Pie" at Heywood Hill, the bookshop in Curzon Street? I thank PGW Net for this link to the audio slideshow on the event. PGW Net, as I am sure you will know as Plum fans, is the mai…
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Heywood Hill's Wodehouse Quotes Contest

Remember I posted about the Wodehouse quotes contest at the Plum Idol event organised at Heywood Hill? More than 200 favourite quotes from Wodehouse were posted at their web site.

The quote that won with the most votes was:

“As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming him on sight.”

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 12:06am —

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NaNoWriMo

Thrilled that I completed National Novel Writing Month. Handed in 50127 words written from November 1 on November 24.

It was a delightful experience. Enjoyed sharing and learning from others in the different forums.

The die hard fan of Wodehouse that I am, I had to bring him in somewhere. So, as is obvious, I made one of the characters in my novel a fan too!

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 8:48am —

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Quotes from The Master

Stressed out? The best remedy- dip into Plum's works. Here's a link to some quotes which should bring a smile to your lips.

I remember reading an article when the guy says one of his girl friends was going through a bad patch and wanted to see a shrink. In his words, he pointed her to P G Wodehouse instead and this cured her- saving them a lot of money in the bargain!

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 8:30am —

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NaNoWriMo

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 characters. My novel is about an Indian Army officer and spans three decades after the 1971 War.It comes under the genre of historical fiction!

Posted on November 10, 2009 at 9:32am —

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You Must Take Part

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 know what you thought of the idea- if not your favourite quotation:)

Posted on October 31, 2009 at 5:16pm —

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At 11:17pm on May 27, 2009, Vibhav Tewari said…
Hi Prem,

Thank you for the warm welcome!

PG Wodehouse was my late father's favourite read, as well. He had all the books, and used to call himself, albeit half-seriously, a "PG Wodehouse devotee"!

My all time favourite piece by PGW is on "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo"

Glad to be a part of it.

Thanks and regards,
Vibhav
At 6:00pm on May 26, 2009, Nick Hobart said…
Thanks, Prem. Glad to be here. The profile picture is a drawing I did of the great man in 1971, which he signed and returned to me.

Wonder if any other Old Alleynians are in the group?
At 10:25am on April 3, 2009, Ian Michaud said…
Thank you for the invitation. Happy to be here.
At 8:21pm on March 6, 2009, Sushrut said…
Good to be here, right ho! :)

Will help bring in the lot,

Cheers,
At 3:23pm on March 6, 2009, Sushmita Sen Gupta said…
Good to be here. Have started a discussion, will soon try and get acclimatised with the environment here. By the way, my mug shot has been chosen carefully - I'm standing in front of PGW's birthplace in Guildford, England.
At 10:17am on February 16, 2009, Madhavi Hegde said…
Nope - unfortunately not :-(. I am ardent enough for the both of us. I have been reading PGW from when I was in my third standard - my grandfather and uncles were fans and so had some books to hand at home....
 
 

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