Ian is joined by extra special honoured guest Elin Woodger Murphy, A legend of the Wodehouse Society (and the Wodehouse Society UK), former editor/\"oldest member\" of Plum Lines and Wooster Sauce and one of the organisers of this year's Wodehouse Society Convention in Garden City, NY.
The book we are discussing this month is The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922), Wodehouse's first collection of golf stories, AKA Golf Without Tears. Elin also talks of her childhood spent in Port Chester and Long Island where they lived very near the Wodehouses, and of her history in Wodehouse fan circles. We also enthuse over the work of Elin's late husband, Norman Murphy.
There will be plot spoilers and stymies.
Next month: The Girl on the Boat with Ansley Ashe.
Special thanks to Maria Jette.
The Wodehouse Society website, with details of the 2026 convention in Garden City, NY
My band The Seven Inches are playing a show this month! Tickets here
You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com.
Help bolster the show's tottering finances at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping. Jolly decent of you.
Drop in at the digital clubhouse at Bluesky or Facebook
Reference works consulted
N T Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works alluded to
Carry On Jeeves
The Man Upstairs
The Man With Two Left Feet
Leave it to Psmith
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
\"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend\"
The Heart of a Goof
Love Among the Chickens
\"Archibald's Benefit\"
\"Parted Ways\"
\"the Eighteenth Hole\"
\"The Man Who Disliked Cats\"
\"By Advice of Counsel\"
Jill the Reckless
\"Bongo in the Congo\" (lyric)
The Mating Season
\"Tom, Dick and Harry\"
\"The Idle King\"
William Tell Told Again
\"Sir Agravaine\"
Also mentioned
Marilyn MacGregor
Ed Ratcliffe
Plum Lines
Bill Blood
Norman Murphy
Wooster Sauce
Edward Cazalet
The Wodehouse Collection at Vanderbilt University
The Shaw Festival Theatre Niagara
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Norman Murphy: - A Guide to P G Wodehouse's New York City and Long Island
- A Wodehouse Handbook
- In Search of Blandings
- A Wodehouse Miscellany
Weston Park
Sudeley Castle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bobby Jones
Abe Mitchell
Harry Vardon
Terry Mordue
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rudyard Kipling
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\"
Marcus Aurelius
E. M. Hull, The Sheik
Hal Cazalet
Song snippets
Pet shop boys, \"You know where you went wrong\"
Goffin and King, \"He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)
Cole Porter, \"Find Me A Primitive Man\"
Gallagher and Shean, \"Mr Gallagher and Mr Shean\"
There is more in this pastime than the casual observer would suppose.
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