Past Times!

Many thanks for the Executive Chimes.

Unfortunately, I ordered the economy

Edition so I had to tear out some

Of the pages to make it right. I

Then discovered that I had disposed

Of the part I wanted to keep

So the part that I had left was not

The alternative Chimes but the alt-

ernative to the alternative Chimes,

so once again I had no alternative

but to tear out the unwanted half of

the alternative to the alternative

Chimes {which was the totally un-

wanted alternative to the alternative

alternative Chimes} and, as an alternative,

keep the less wanted alternative alternative

to the alternative Chimes. As this left me with a

degusting cartoon about our beloved auricular

heir to the throne, there was little alternative

but to bung it in the bin. I should jolly

well like to know who was responsible

for this scurrilous and disgraceful

attack on our poor, defenceless future King.

                     - Peter Preston

                       Holyhead, Gywnedd.

Yes, that was a genuine letter – quite alt-

Ernative really. Ed.

   This I read in "Chimes" magazine 1991. The name is known, and is someone I still have contact with today. I think I shall send Peter the piece, to see if he remembers it.

Be seeing you