JUST WHO IS HE CALLING A TOSSER…? OR: FROM ONE KID(D) TO ANOTHER…
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The age of innocence, when certain phrases did not have the identical which implies as they manufacture on the present time, is on pronounce in the above page from the TV Comedian Annual for 1963, in which the observe ‘tosser’ is old with no touch of embarrassment as any individual’s surname.  How events have changed, eh?

Talking of that particular Annual, take care of terminate a inspect on the seller’s pictures (below) of 1 I sold no longer too long previously for a mere £2 on eBay.  As you would perchance well peer, it became color-used all the map in which thru the perimeters and did not have a spine, however I soon rectified that.  Obviously, without reference to the fashioned spine, it doubtlessly bears microscopic resemblance to it, however I have faith I managed to bag one who enhances the book and would no longer inspect out of space.

Paeans of reward are most welcome in the comments portion.

(Incidentally, there became essentially a TV pronounce known as Gardening Club which ran from 1955 to ’67, however no longer definitely one of many presenters had a reputation even vaguely reminiscent of ‘Roy Tosser’, so it isn’t essentially a parody of any particular particular person.  Update: Ah, the penny has dropped, in consequence of AL’s observation in the [where else?] comments portion.)

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Whenever you’re questioning in regards to the alternate put up title, the book has an inscription inner, exhibiting that it belonged to Bryan Kidd and became a 1962 Christmas most up-to-date from his ‘mammy and daddy’.  (No, Bryan, you would perchance well’t have it support.)

And now for the ‘after’ pictures.  Didn’t I manufacture properly?!  Obviously, I would perchance well no longer restore it to any place terminate to pristine condition, however I mediate or no longer it’s definitely an boost on what it became ‘sooner than’.

That is no longer a white crease alongside the backside, lawful the digicam flash