The World According to Enfield Senior - Tapa blanda

The best of Edward Enfield's column in The Oldie
"In 1992, my father made the comment that many people who write their autobiographies spend a generous amount of time saying how awful their fathers were, and how they ruined their offspring's lives. He suggested that he would very much like to write about how awful his offspring were and how we ruined his life. To humour the old chap, I sent some of his stuff to Richard Ingrams who, purely to oblige me, said he'd find a space for it in The Oldie. Since then, he's been able to exercise his pent-up feelings of resentment through his pen. I have arranged to intercept the greater plart of his fee as commission. So there's a little bit of extra drink money in it for me, and enough left over for him to buy me a passable Christmas present for a change."

HARRY ENFIELD