asked Mr Jefferson, breaking into my thoughts. Fortunately inspiration came to my assistance. “Putting the Truss,” I said. “In fact I’m just off to the hospital for a new one, nice seeing you all again,” and with that I limped painfully down the drive and out of their lives forever. I hope. **** June 10 2007. FLATULENT CHAIR. There has been a lot in the newspapers recently about the teacher who sued her former school for £1 million in compensation after the school failed to replace her chair, which apparently made flatulent noises when she moved. She was quoted as saying: “It was a regular joke that my chair made farting noises and I regularly have to apologise to pupils and parents that it isn’t me, it’s my chair.” Many columnists, amongst them such luminaries as Richard Littlejohn and Keith Waterhouse, have put in their two pennyworth, but surprisingly for men of their eminence neither Littlejohn nor Waterhouse latched onto the most important feature of the case.
