WNDC Veteran comes out of hibernation...

WNDC watchers are still in debate as to the significance of last nights shock reappearance of Richard C after many months of self imposed hibernation. Many will have been surprised that he should throw himself into the cut and thrust of WNDC banter so early in his return to Leamington lad culture. Lesser men might have arranged a few quiet one to one drinks with former trusted drinking partners where a slip of the tongue or worse a drying up in mid sentence could politely be ignored with a sympathetic smile and patronising pat on the back. Typically Richard spurned this gentle introduction, setting the bar to that of his former glories starting right where he left off, the verbal cauldron that is the WNDC.

There are some who have in recent months challenged for the crown that made Richard the king of indescretion. Some of us have tried to match his candid self deprecation but realise ourselves as but chancing knaves when within minutes of joining our little round table he regaled us with his latest tales of woe. Having played my top trump "Naked gallery shocker" which had built, if a little laboriously, to it's climax the polite smiles of indulgence rapidly turned to unabashed hilarity as I was trumped by this latter day Holden Cauldfield's most recent faux pas. There is a rarely shown competitive flame that sometimes flickers within me but this was happily blown out as I realised our king was back. As I saw the bitter sweet smile of a man who is not sure if he is being laughed at or laughed with but just knows he loves to glow in the reflected laughter of others, I knew our king was back where he belongs, happy in the hours that are the WNDC.

"Goodnight Jim Bob" "Good night Mary Lou" - sorry thought I was writing the closing paragraph to a episode of the Waltons there for a minute....

n.b. Please note the extensive use of the "WNDC" under which I am trying to get us ranked higher in Google's search engine.