Oh, all I want to do is join in the conversation and lovingly spam you to death, but I'm at work and have real life things like events to organise.

Just to quickly say that I haven't read C Northcote Parkinson for ages, and so my abiding memory is one of general amusement that the cod-portrait of Hornblower is uncannily like a young and slightly more preposessing version of C Northcote Parkinson, a photo of whom is is printed VERY LARGE on the back cover of my copy. *chortle*