And also from #3 in his SCHNERDITORIAL – Nigel comments: ...I decided to abandon the Romiley Anomaly series for the sake of the Torbay Happy Fan and Lampshade Makers Soc... Walt Willis said he hated to see all these little groups carrying on independently all over the country, without central co-ordination and proper organisation. He proposes shortly to enlist Ken Slater and Orville Mosher's aid in the formation of a National Federation of Fan & Allied Societies, which will integrate the activities of these isolated groups and produce something really worthwhile like Committees and Official Organs and Bureaux and Directors and suchlike. He proposes to begin with a Romiley, Torbay and London Scottish Dancing, Lampshade Makers, Happy Fan Veterans and Promiscuous Snogging Society. The lampshade makers could make kilts for the Scottish dancers and so on.    Now who'd have expected such facetious remarks from Ghod ! Just because the lampshade makers are crafty at covering wire frames with silk it doesn't necessarily mean they could cover bony Scottish frames with plaid. Anyway, in deference to Harry Turner, and to pave the way for the forthcoming amalgamation, I have abandoned the Romiley Fan Dancing Society.    And to clinch the matter, BIAS BINDING #2 combined with NIRVANA, the "Club News" of the Tobay Happy Fan and Lampshade Makers Society, includes this paragraph: Your Leader has recently been elected an honorary member of the Romiley Fan Veterans & Scottish Dancing Society following the clearing up of a foul charge laid against him by Harry Turner. I am NOT, never HAVE been, nor ever INTEND to be a member of the dreaded Fan Dancers. Harry had been confusing me with my twin brother and song-writer extraordinaire "Spider" Lindsay. "Spider" Lindsay, eh? Remember that name: he sounds like a source of potential trouble... Which reminds me that BIAS BINDING #1 concluded with a little rhyme from the Lampshade Makers handbook... In the depths of a Romiley Mangrove swamp Was hatched an unspeakable scheme, An attempt to sell (dare we tell?)       WIDOWER'S ANTI-SCHNERDLITE CREAM ! "Spider" Lindsay, eh? Remember that name, folks: he sounds like a source of potential trouble... And here, just to round off matters are a couple more snapshots from the files.    That's all, folks!

You have been reading FROM THE ARCHIVES, a supplement to the recyled NOW&THEN #4
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