Wheels of Words

2011 is slowly coming to an end and we would like to take this opportunity to wish our blog readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We know that some of you might not celebrate Christmas, but we want to wish you a wonderful time, too, because we just cannot let this time of year go unnoticed ;)

Appropriate to the occasion Judith included a small clip, taken from the British sitcom “Yes Minister”, one of her favourite British shows. The section shows Sir Humphrey Appleby wishing his MP Jim Hacker Merry Christmas in his very own way. Here's the transcript, hopefully faultless. Judith gave it her best shot ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShJa6GobFQ

“I wonder if I might crave your momentary indulgence in order to discharge a by no means disagreeable obligation which has, over the years, become more or less established practice within government circles as we approach the terminal period of the year - calendar, of course, not financial - in fact not to put too fine a point on it, Week Fifty-One and submit to you, with all appropriate deference, for your consideration at a convenient juncture, a sincere and sanguine expectation - indeed confidence - indeed one might go so far as to say hope that the aforementioned period may be, at the end of the day, when all relevant factors have been taken into consideration, susceptible to being deemed to be such as to merit a final verdict of having been by no means unsatisfactory in its overall outcome and, in the final analysis, to give grounds for being judged on mature reflection to have been conducive to generating a degree of gratification which will be seen in retrospect to have been significantly higher than the general average.”

We wish you a wonderful Christmas season and a Happy New Year

Judith and Vivienne