Belated best wishes for 2014, a year that promises so very much and at this stage the low light is Andrew Bolt’s wholehearted endorsement of Senator Bernardi’s appalling hate inducing views on people of difference.

Quentin, Cecil and Ira took holidays during that period, yet managed to correspond with dignity, clarity and erudition.  At least that is what they told me to tell you.  Perhaps you should judge for yourself by examining these edited transcripts.

On 31 December 2013 13:21, Quentin Cockburn wrote:
Helo Cecil and Ira, much ado about nothing tonight. I am, (if you should like to know) sitting in a small, ( they still exist) bungalow at Mt Martha. This is very apt, a low key new years eve for a low key end of the one we’re currently in.. Apart from that Nuffink!.. I wish you all the best, and I feel tempted to remind you that i have just received a missive from Paddio who is seeing the old year out in the company of lesbians in the Strathbogie ranges.

I would dearly love to be sharing the fag end of this year with the both of you, but I am reminded by their impish squeals and laughter that the kids would rather stay at the beach till Friday.. However on friday I am back in charge again and up for anything if you’re about in Melbourne..

What a year..

Shall ring you in person this eve, and determine an escapade, could even be fish and chips on the Yarra, the possibilities are endless!!!

Cheers

On 04/01/2014, at 12:11 PM, Ira Maine wrote:
Dear Brother Ignatius,

“…I would dearly love to be sharing the fag-end of this year with both of you…’

We the undersigned are just a soupcon disturbed by your above remark and feel that too close a proximity to Melb. Uni. Library (Carmodious Division) has perhaps brought back to the forefront that which was formerly in the back of the front. I’m fronting you with this to bring back to the forefront that which you seem to lack the front to back out of. To help you get back in front there are a couple of things we would like to have you back to confront;

Just because Shameless Carmuddy takes it upon himself to bogle two  Ladies of Lesbos  in the Stratbogies, this doesn’t automatically give you the right to behave in a like manner with friends who, to this point, had trusted you completely. What else could you possibly you mean by ‘…sharing the ‘FAG END’…’   Well, on the surface it seems to me to be pretty plain what you mean…

And I suppose too it’s in imitation of Shameless and his ladies that you feel the need for ‘FAG END’ time with BOTH of us…

At the very least you must give CP, the time to get used to the idea and allow him time to decide on venue, appropriate dress and on a scale of charges commensurate with his standing in the community.

For myself, being temporarily hors de combat, I must rule myself out of this latest round of the ‘FAG END’ gender agenda.

I reckon ‘FAG END’ is the same as ‘BAG END’ with the slight difference here that all the Hobbits at ‘FAG END’ are gay.

IRA

To be finalised tomorrow