Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙

Loser of glasses and phones - often. Lives in Welsh mountains. Granny to two young Dundonians. Retired teacher. Blocked by my Tory former MP.

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@justdavenow89 Ten times now, I think, and all was and is well.

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@saniyafatma1278 Looks great to me.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

In celebration of the great Ronnie Barker, who would have been 96 yesterday (I'm late, sorry) I've decided to post his celebrated mispronunciation sketch.

As some of you will know, like many Two Ronnies sketches featuring just Ronnie B, it was written by Barker himself under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley and is a masterpiece of comedic wordplay.

In case you aren't aware of the story behind Gerald Wiley, Ronnie Barker would bring sketches to rehearsals claiming they had been written by a man called Gerald Wiley who had submitted them through Barker's agent, Peter Eade. So as not to arouse suspicion, Barker would even criticize some of the sketches, going so far as to telling Ronnie Corbett that some of them were poorly written.

The truth was eventually revealed in a Chinese restaurant where, in front of the cast and crew, Barker stood up and admitted he was Gerald Wiley, although many didn't believe him.

Incidentally, while I was writing Richard Briers' authorised biography I came across a set of postcards in Richard's study that had been sent to him by Ronnie Barker. Each one starts with "Now look here!" and have a running theme of Ronnie trying to find Richard a suitable "mental facility" in which he's to be committed!

Anyway, God bless Ronnie Barker.

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@mrmikeMTL Me

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@Suzierizzo1 @GuitarsGunsGolf He was, and I’d have loved to go to one of his parties! We were 15 or 16 then, same age as him.

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@GuitarsGunsGolf @Suzierizzo1 Grok is so wrong! I was at high school in Bromley and David Jones, as he was, went to Bromley Technical School. After school my friends and I would wait for his bus to come into Bromley and we’d hope for a smile and a few words!

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@BhattiLaib9960 -1
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[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@honeymoon250 20/20. My word, I must be old!

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@LucasSa56947288 @parkcommunicate A

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@chefsevenn We ate it.

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@AquamarMedia @ronsterd89 And 70s!

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@MbarkCherguia Northern Soul. UK.

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@Lina_rays1ya E

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@rocknrollofall @JackRus72710051 Love it that Jeremy Paxman is referred to as a ‘TV reporter’!

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@saniyafatma1278 Betsy

[Dr Simon @DrSimonsTravels]

Meningitis is one a few diseases where your child can be well in the morning and dead by the evening

And if you’d ever seen it happen, you wouldn’t be debating whether to vaccinate or not

Tragic and horrifying

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

For your information: when Eddie died of meningitis, he didn't have a rash on his body. I discovered after he had died (as I was pulling him from his bed) that he had a rash in his armpits.

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@karenfthompson Oh, definitely! Xx

[Ann Rowson 🇪🇺💙 @AnnRowson1]

@karenfthompson It took a long time!