Springtime for Merkel, starring in no particular order.../November 18th 2011.

Richie - Would you Adam and Eve it! Mrs Bob No 3's amateur operatic group were considering staging Springtime for Hitler as their March 2012 production. However, our happy clappy vicar, Rev Pritchard, who has always harboured a secret longing to tread the boards, has now written a brand new operetta entitled "The Sick Old Maid of Europe". Rather like Dickens' Miss Havisham, old maid Brittania is locked away frothing at the gills while the domineering - but rather sexy - Frau Saurkraut entertains her euro friends to a cultural parle in her boudoir. Things come to a rather unseemly head when old maid Brittania staggers down the stairs and demands to join in the fun! There follows an almighty hissy fit when she's ignored, culminating in Brittania's wig, teeth, falsies and wooden leg falling orf causing her to shrivel up and die. Best of all, Old Wob has bagged for himself the role of Richie, a British bulldog who pines for his dead mistress and sings the final number "I Might Be A Right-Wing Windbag, But I'm Ingurlish Through And Through". The show ends with Richie being put to sleep by Madmoselle Sarky for making a whoopsie on the carpet! Zoot Alors, Herr Rumpy, I say!