Dr Smith: 'How's your new receptionist?' Dr Jones: 'Highly efficient. I haven't seen a patient all week ' This book is packed with clean quick-fire jokes and longer funny stories about all the usual suspects: bankers, lawyers, doctors, estate agents, Scotsmen, Irishmen, vicars, builders, mothers-in-law and many more. If you're hunting for jokes for a speech, public address, sermon or lecture or just looking for laughs, 'After Dinner Laughs' will keep you chuckling, page after page.

'If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.' A. A. Milne (1882-1956) On Valentine's Day we remember our loved ones and what they mean to us. This little book contains poems, prose excerpts and quotations on the theme of love from some of the greatest writers in history, as well as Valentine's Day facts and classic illustrations. It will be the perfect gift for the man or woman in your life at this romantic time of the year.

This book contains very little information whatsoever on etiquette or correct form. It will not tell you how to eat peas with a fork, how to introduce a lady mayor to a Clerk of Works or what to do with your hat during the playing of the Botswanan national anthem. (Answer: remove it.) It will, however, give you the best quotations on manners for gentlemen from writers between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries (including Lord Chesterfield, William Makepeace Thackeray and William Hazlitt). It will be an invaluable and thought-provoking little book for any Civilised Chap (or Civilised...

Why are Anglicans such bad chess players? Because they don't know the difference between a Bishop and a Queen. Did you hear about the new liberal branch of the Church of England? It has six commandments and four suggestions. This book is packed with (mostly) clean, good-natured jokes, riddles and funny stories old and new about clergy, churches and Christianity. Get into the humour habit and prepare yourself for the 'laughter-life' Unlike most church joke books, it is from a British rather than American perspective, but it will appeal to anybody looking for jokes for sermons, parish...

'Let us sing our own treasures, Old England's good cheer, To the profits and pleasures of stout British beer; Your wine tippling, dram sipping fellows retreat, But your beer drinking Britons can never be beat.' This book is an ideal drinking companion for any fan of real ale, craft beers and the traditional British pub. Dipping into the literary barrels of the past five hundred years, this anthology delivers a heady brew of poems, prose passages and quotations in praise of real ale from writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Johnson, Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Burns. Learn about the...

'London, thou art the flower of cities all ' William Dunbar (1459-1513) Steeped in history, culture and traditions, London remains one of the largest and most populous cities on the planet. Small wonder then, that some of history's greatest poets have been inspired by it. This illustrated collection of classic London verse contains poetry by writers such as Thomas Hardy, D.H.Lawrence and William Wordsworth, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The poems praise the pageantry and history of the capital, as well as the natural beauty of its gardens, suburbs and mighty river. Yet some...

'The Slow Bicycle Companion: inspirational quotes from cycling's golden age' celebrates the golden age of cycling, before the noisy arrival of the motor car and the heavy goods vehicle, when lycra, hi-viz and plastic hats were unknown, bicycles had no brakes let alone gears, and tweed-clad riders puffed on cigars as they pedalled along peaceful country lanes. If you are a fan of the Slow Bicycle Movement and wish to return to a less hurried, more civilised, and perspiration-free style of cycling, this book of quotations will inspire and amuse in equal measure.

Discover Savile Row style...on a Skid Row budget This book shows you how to dress well on a budget and how to save money on tailoring as well as off the peg clothing. It also gives advice on maintaining and repairing clothes, so that you can build a great classic and stylish wardrobe for a minimal outlay.The book gives invaluable tips and advice on many aspects of classic clothing purchase, including overseas tailors, vintage clothing shops and charity shops, military surplus, and Ebay. It also shows how you can 'be your own valet' with tips and tricks such as how to sponge and press a suit,...

Would you like to make wine quickly and easily at home costing just a few pence a bottle? Who wouldn't ? Perhaps you've thought about home wine making but have been put off by those who say it takes a long time and needs lots of specialist equipment. They're wrong This step-by-step guide shows you how to make simple 'country wines' at home using the minimum of equipment in the shortest time possible. Using his tried and trusted 'universal method', author Hugh Morrison, a home wine maker for over fifteen years, breaks down the wine making process into its simplest form and shows how with just...

'A Treasury of Thrift' gives you the pick of the advice of the great thrifty writers of the past - including Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Lydia Maria Frances Child, author of 'The American Frugal Housewife'. Rather than providing detailed advice on budgeting or investing, this little book of money saving quotations from great writers will help you change your 'money mindset'; the first vital step to help you grow towards financial security. It contains a wealth of thought-provoking ideas that you will want to return to again and again. This is a companion volume to 'Frontier Frugal'...