Thank ‘ee! Right bunch of young Archers, lighting a fire on the rhinoceros’ back and having it killed to suit their own convenience! Pip, Josh, Helen and Tom, surely…
Going back to runcibles, what are we to think of a pig who sells his ring in a wood? I mean, what would the neighbours say? And if a thurifer is one who swings a thurible of incense in a church, what is the precise function of a runcifer? What is a runcifer fer?
Throwing his hat into the custard just so it would spoil the meal of the mice impressed me as the behaviour of a horrible child when I was about six, I do recall.
Wielding the last Archbishop but three, of course. Next!
Ew. He died nearly 17 years ago. Now if it was fer wielding his son, a greatly respected director and documentary maker, including that of J K Rowling’s childhood…educated at Cambridge but trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he’s certainly a Runciful of talent.
Come to think of it, he probably eats his Weetabix or what have you with a Runcie Full spoon.