Assyrians still exist

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> Carol:
> IIRC, he's referred to as Great Uncle Algie in the story about 
Neville
> being dropped out the window and bouncing down the hill. I'm 
guessing
> that he's Gran's slightly dotty brother.

Geoff:
You're right, he is.

"My great-uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force 
some magic out of me - he pushed me off the end of Blakpool pier 
once, Inearly drowned - but nothing happened until I was eight. great-
uncle Algie came round for tea and he was hanging me out of an 
upstairs window by the ankles when my great-auntie Enid offered him a 
meringue and he accidentally let go."

(PS "The Sorting Hat" p.93 UK edition)

Hm. I wonder whether Enid was put up to it by somebody? Make an 
interesting plea in a court of law if it had gone wrong.. "I was 
offered a meringue and, in a moment of weakness, I let go, M'lud."

:-)