This week’s Dumteedum caused earthquake proportions of discomfort in Kosmo towers on initial hearing. First up Roifield issued a detailed apology to the entire German nation over the utterance of a discarded national anthem, following which Lucy commented on the week in Ambridge referring to events of which I had absolutely no memory.
Eventually my brain sorted itself out and I decided that as I had not yet heard this week’s episodes of The Archers I thought I should probably go and do that before hearing Lucy’s take on events! Lucy has been busy recently with a Year in Ambridge at the Academic Archers conference also coming to Dumteedum extra very soon!
Coming back to Dumteedum it suddenly made sense (well about as much sense as any episode ever does!) as Lexi had a mention, Xander, who is now legal and hopefully British, received a name whilst Mungo arrived from nowhere, returning there before Granny Lilian had a look in. Again Robert (see last week) was completely out of character, where has his backbone gone? We should send out a search party.
Witherspoon doubled down on his wise advice and there were many other callers from across the globe, a very wide church over which Shula will no doubt be keen to minister. Roifield can Mrs Collingwood be encouraged to share her recollections of Ambridge please?
Kosmo
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Lieber Lucy & Roifield
As a long-time listener to DTD and as a recently naturalised Staatsbürger, you can tell Roifield he is NOT going to be arrested for singing the first verse of das Deutschlandlied, (nor the second, which is about German wine and German women). The third verse is only sung by convention and the first two verses are not banned by any German law. The melody composed by Haydn was also used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire up to 1918 with different lyrics (then it was called the Kaiserlied and dedicated to the Emperor Franz Josef).
Hope this clears things up. Anyway, Roifield could always sind the pre-1919 German National Anthem (“Heil dir im Siegerkranz”) which has the same tune as God Save the Queen so even he shouldn’t cock that one up!
Grüße aus Heidelberg
Mark