George Melly is 79 nudging 80. You'll probably think, 'That's not old these days'. And it's true, George is still swinging and singing, fly-fishing, flirting, and for now just playing at senility. But it's not as if he were the Queen Mother. He walks very slowly nowadays. He's losing control over...
George Melly's three autobiographical memoirs - "Scouse Mouse", "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and "Owning Up" in one volume for the first time. An account of the author's life from childhood in middle-class Liverpool in the thirties, through national service in the navy as an ordinary seaman to his e...
My hammock and kitbag weighed me down and I had bad dhobi itch as well. Dhobi itch is a weeping rash in the crutch caused by failing to rinse the suds out .from one’s underpants. It is a most dispiriting complaint.I reported to the Petty Officer on duty. He told me the barracks were full and that...