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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs was born in 1934 and is still more or less alive. Most people die in their seventies and as one of his younger friends gleefully pointed out on his 83rd birthday in January, he's entered his 84th year - Tee hee! Soon be far too old to write bits for The Oldie

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My great escape... from hospital

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs

My great escape... from hospital

Raymond Briggs on doing a runner from hospital

Notes from the Sofa

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs

Notes from the Sofa

There was a time when we knew all there was to know about light bulbs: forty; sixty; one hundred. That was it. Sixty was a good average, everyday number to have; one hundred, if you wanted it brighter; forty if it was less important and you needed to keep an eye on the electricity bills. These numbers were in WATTS, whatever watts are. What is a watt? Have you ever seen a watt? What does a watt look like?

Notes from the Sofa...

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs

Notes from the Sofa...

I think I may be going potty. A young friend, scarcely sixty, has come to help me have a clear-out. First sign of pottyness – 18 walking sticks! Some in the junk room, some in the shed.

Notes from the Sofa

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs

Notes from the Sofa

It’s always intriguing, the names people use for the daily meals, breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and supper. There’s almost no other word for breakfast, but my two Yorkshire friends always pronounce it ‘brake-fast’. But then they are Northerners – so one has to make allowances. Though, in this case, they are more correct than us sophisticated Southerners, as we are all breaking our overnight fast. I’ve just been told some very young children call it ‘breckies’. Then there is ‘brekker’. Not sure where that comes from? Public school?

Notes from the Sofa

Features | By Raymond Briggs

Notes from the Sofa

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Notes from the sofa

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs

Notes from the sofa

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