37927 said:
No I'll leave to guess what the number is
"I deduce, my dear Watson, that our visitor was born in early September 1927 and the Registrar was distracted by the barking of that diabolical Hound whose affair you have previously recorded.
He admits to only 40 years cycling experience out of the 81 available and describes himself as 'rarely out of Wales', but to the trained eye it is clear that our man has spent most of his adult years drifting in Carmarthen Bay: observe the salt incrustations still discolouring the inside of his bicycle clips. The compulsive search for flatfish which Andy in Sig has observed clinches the matter."
"Remarkable, Holmes, remarkable. Whatever has brought the poor devil to us, I hope he will not find us too rum a lot - and he may have something of interest in his shed."