Lord Lindum’s Anus Mirabilis

A thoroughly enjoyable this short read, with an amusing view of the difficult times since Covid took over our lives!

Well what can I say, I enjoyed the previous book and this one was just as good. Loved the banter of the two main characters and how everything panned out during the pandemic.

A hilarious read, which I enjoyed from beginning to end!

The dialogue between Fiskerton and Lord Lindum is brilliant.

I have this day consumed the whole of the delightful confection that is Lord Lindum’s Anus Mirabilis. I enjoyed the fundamental conceit and the arch caricatures, not to mention the rabid political views expressed. In particular I found the malapropisms most entertaining: Alfred Lawn Tennyson (of Wimbledon I assume) and The Lady of Shallots being some of my favourites. The range of epithets applied to Fiskerton too is entertaining; “old fartleberry” takes the crown I feel.

Many thanks for this gift of joy and delight.

Norks indeed!

This second romp for Lord Lindum satisfies the Christmas book appetite nicely, reprising all those things that annoyed us during 2021. The writing rings with the clarity of the crystal of his lordship’s claret glass, and the diction and wit are what we have come to expect from Mr Thomson.

The cast of characters at Lindum Towers has increased in this latest instalment of the life of the 4th Baron Lindum, too, making the orgy at the end possible. Each is readily identifiable by looks, vocabulary, sound or smell – which shows more imagination and awareness of the human senses than most contemporary writers.

I found the reading of Death in the Afternoon through a megaphone from the parapet very moving, a fitting tribute to the late DofE. I think he would have been touched.

Mr Thomson has recognised the Christmas book genre for precisely what it is: a chance to celebrate and laugh and think of things that are nothing whatever to do with the Son of God coming to earth to save us.

Who to cast in the TV series? Ian Richardson would have played his lordship brilliantly. Timothy West? David Bradley, having made such a great job as Filch, might be an admirable Fiskerton. Patsy Byrne would have been a fine Mrs Washingborough, but Frances de la Tour is still around to play Hippolyta Skellingthorpe.

We can only wonder what 2022 will bring: who will be skewered and who will be spared? Will this be the year that the Hon. Rupert reunites with the pater and brings American customs and California attitudes to Lindum Towers?

No doubt, we shall see.

They are all here again: the abominable Lord Lindum; Fiskerterton, his preposterously loyal butler; Mrs Washingborough, his timorous housekeeper; Scampton, the put-upon factotum; Scopwick, the malodorous boot boy; Canon Scothern, the corrupt rector of St. Fiasco’s, and the terrifying Hippolyta, dowager Countess Skellingthorpe. The Anus Mirabilis is even funnier if anything than last year’s adventures of the irascible aristocrat. Uproarious Yuletide merriment. Shut out the weather, throw a peasant on the fire, and laugh your socks off.

Will 2021 be better than 2020 for Lord Lindum and his staff I wondered ? This sequel to Lord Lindum’s Anus Horribilis is just as much fun; I thoroughly enjoyed it. Mrs Malaprop would have been very proud of the irascible Lord Lindum’s diction; however it is his butler, Fiskerton who normally wins the day, unbeknown to His Lordship who is too busy salivating at the prospect of his next feast to realise that once again he has been bettered by his butler. Hilariously funny…..a laugh a minute. Highly recommended.