The more observant among you may remember that on Tuesday last week I had a free ticket for the Wodehouse one man show as my husband declined to attend. He then changed his mind and came with me.
I am conscious I owe this group the review of the evening that was requested. I am behind on this as I have just returned from a festival that we accidentally booked. We had thought we were booking an electronic music festival called Watching Trees but accidentally booked a Welsh folk festival called Between The Trees, which was an unexpected surprise last week. It was wonderful but prevented me from really giving the review my all. It shall follow post haste.
Anyway I digress. Earlier this evening we opened the email with the tickets we had bought to another PG Wodehouse binge happening in London this week, in the Actors church in Covent Garden, to discover we have accidentally booked not three, not four, not five… but six tickets for Thursday evening. The eagle eyed among you might observe a trend.

So we have three tickets to offer, free of charge. If there is stiff competition then maybe I should give to the people who have the best story about an organisational disaster.

You can read about the show here https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/40389-jeeves-and-wooster-in-stiff-upper-lip-jeeves

Saw this ad at the station and got so excited!!! I'm 100% going and shall be booking tickets immediately.

If you have Audible, and live in Canada…

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me understand what Wooster is saying here! I'm normally okay with his funny abbreviations, but in Chapter 4, Wooster says, "Did he mention what the b.a. of great d. and i. was?"

I have no idea what the letters mean here and I am stumped!

Jeeves and Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves' Tickets | London Theatre Direct

Good morning! I have just purchased my tickets for this production, playing in Covent Garden in late August/early September: I thought I'd share the link in case it is of interest to anybody.

Just as the title says, I heard this response from Jeeves when asked by Wooster if he (Jeeves) knew everything. But what does it mean and why does he say it? Is it because he doesn't know what everything would entail so cannot confirm it?

What ho. I do a P. G. Wodehouse podcast where I look at all the books chronologically, and I've now reached the first Jeeves book (or half a Jeeves book), My Man Jeeves. Thought it might be of interest.

https://shows.acast.com/wodehousekeeping/episodes/my-man-jeeves-with-gwen-sheldon

What ho!

In case it's of interest, there is a Jeeves & Wooster walk running on 1st March (https://www.walks.com/our-walks/what-ho-jeeves-the-london-of-p-g-wodehouse/). I thought I'd put the link here in case it was of interest to anybody.

Pip pip!

I started a rewatch recently and got hit with that childhood memory again. Now I do have newts🦎

Literally kicking my feet from joy right now!! I can't wait to play this 24/7 all day long :D ❤️

I eventually intend to read every single book, but I'm pretty tight on money at the moment. They all have similar prices, between 33€ and 50€

I'm confused, I've searched thoroughly and I'm still confused.

Some say it's 11 novels some say 16. Then the rest are collections of short stories. But I read the total should be around 40? So how many collections of short stories there are?

Could somebody please clarify?

Rewatching the ITV adaptation which my late father used to enjoy. The one memory I have of it is when Bertie rides a bicycle through the rain while his friends are at a party.

Presumably this is an episode in the countryside.

Can anyone remember which episode it is?

Thank you.

I mean to say, it’s dashed rum, Jeeves, how the populace can muster a whole jamboree—“Blooms‑day,” they call it—for that chap Joyce and his Odysseus‑or‑Ulysses wheeze, and then go positively potty a little after Mayday shouting “May the Fourth be with you!” at cardboard robots, yet raise not so much as a whisper for the one author whom the fearsome Vladimir Brusiloff himself ranked up there with Tolstoy (and, incidentally, whose mashie‑niblick prose has gladdened the hearts of golfers from Mulliner to the roughest hazard at Bingley‑on‑Sea). If you ask this modest chappie, the calendar cries out for “Plum Day” on the fifteenth of October—our own Pelham Grenville’s birthday—when clubs the world over might pass the port to the right, pin a carnation in the button‑hole, and read a chapter of Jeeves aloud before tea.

I've managed to convince some friends to do a watch party of the TV series and am putting together a list of five episodes for it, and wanted to ask everyone's opinion as to which five episodes I should include. I figured the pilot is a given, in addition I'm thinking The Silver Jug, if just for the "British Knee" speech. Any others people feel would be good to introduce people to?

So, presently I'm on my second re-watch here, and while it's heavily tempting to go for the titanically-annoying Aunt Agatha or the like, or maybe the various American, fat-cat blowhards, I think I'm leaning moreso upon vintage material of the 'homegrown ilk,' so to speak.

As in-- those of Bertie's friends and relatives, willing to shamelessly and narcissisticly betray him at every turn without the slightest sense of remorse.

Yes, I'm looking at YOU, Tuppy Glossop, false-friend-o as it were. And YES, I'm also looking at you Stiffy Bing!

Ah, but rabbits-- at least Tuppy was a childhood friend of Bertie's, and was something of a known quantity that our man had dealt with, warts and all, in the bloody-well past, is it not?

As for supreme arch-villain Roderick Spode... oof... good gorsh, he's somehow, paradoxically, absurdly LIKEABLE in the end, is it not? (how it that even possible, mates?!)

Argh, but this is bad, I guess!!
I.e., dear, wonderful Madeline Bassett, so whimsical, cute, gentle, sweet-hearted and the like.

Kinda broke my heart right there, her marrying Spode, and not our man. 💘

But... I guess I just hate Stiffy to shreds, especially for leaving Bertie rotting in jail, in performance of her own scheme.

Hah well...

What happened to the actor who played him in the TV show… anyone know?

Anyone interested in this? My friend gave it to me ages ago but I never framed it. There’s a bit of wear. Would happily ship out to a good home. Can grab dimensions—it’s fairly big!