Appreciation …

… The man who wrote the most perfect sentences ever written - BBC Culture. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Nearly three decades on, I’m currently rewatching the DVDs with my daughter, and Jeeves and Wooster is still pretty much flawless. When I interviewed Laurie in 2000, I gushed about the series, and he cited what was, at the time, his favourite Wodehouse line: “The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like GK Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

Wodehouse may well be the perfect antidote for the sour society we currently inhabit.