Evening Standard article with Graeme anecdote
14/01/2009 23:00 GMT

Posted by lisa

The following article appeared in The Evening Standard yesterday (January 14, 2009):

Messing about on the river ; The Londoner's Diary

VETERAN comedians Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden performed a double act at yesterday's Oldie literary lunch at Simpson's-in-the- Strand, promoting their book, The Doings of Hamish and Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea.

Garden recalled that, while fishing on the Spey, he noticed that ghillies displayed a wonderful mixture of contempt and respect. "Don't bugger about with your reel, SIR," he was once told while landing a fish. Garden said that, after a bad day, his ghilly suggested they should try Rifkind's pool. "Would that be the Secretary of State for Scotland, later Foreign Secretary?" said Garden.

"Does he catch a lot of fish?" "No," said the ghilly, "only the one"