[jambutty]

Of course I am garinda. Just an old softie with a hard shell to deflect the slings and arrows of life. Nice avatar for the season. Great picture. Looks well for an 86 years old.

I remember a golliwog in Rupert but that was donkey’s years ago West Ender or maybe it is my tired old brain cell playing tricks on me. They weren’t all animals – there was Tiger Lilley and the magician, they were human. I wonder if Rupert’s dad still smokes a pipe? Would it be allowed today?

Rupert never really got over the pond Billcat so it is unlikely that you would remember him. But then you may have spent your childhood days in the UK. I don’t know.

Now here’s a bombshell! Twenty odd years ago it was reckoned that Rupert was gay because he had no ‘girl’ friends. I don’t believe that for one minute.