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Cornered by THE CAPTAIN

You’ll remember how, when we last gathered here, my friend Wendy and I had just been invited to dinner by a strange man who looked like Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army (apart from the glasses, and the Home Guard uniform).

The dinner invitation was intended as compensation for dropping a blob of egg mayonnaise on my top. The incident took place when he passed by on his way to the gents, as Wendy and I were having tea

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