The book, at once funny, knowledgeable and poignant, sold 130,000 copies before Christmas. There were two less successful sequels: J R Hartley Casts Again (1992) and Golfing (1995). Ellis Barker (5 June 2016). "Suffolk mum shares joys of parenthood with wider audience in funny stories written while her baby sleeps". East Anglian Daily Times . Retrieved 2018-01-19. He performed the bass solos in Handel's Messiah more than 200 times, including on a BBC recording to mark the bicentenary of the composer's death, and sang in every cathedral in Britain.

In 1952 Lumsden married Irene Palmer with whom he had one son. His wife was a soprano and during the 1950s they appeared in cabaret together, performing extracts from musicals at seaside resorts and London hotels. In 1967 Lumsden returned to the English Opera Group to create the role of Luka in William Walton's opera The Bear at the 1967 Aldeburgh Festival. [4] Later career [ edit ]

a b Wooley, Benjamin (1993). Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality. Penguin Science. p. 5. ISBN 0140154396. This was partly due to bad health. In truth, though, the study of Latin and Greek had been annihilated by the excitements of the Turf. Michael Russell developed a spasmodically successful betting system, which enabled him in prosperous periods to drive a Rolls-Royce and pay tribute to elegance: shirts from Turnbull & Asser; shoes from Poulsen Skone. The shoot happened on the hottest day of the year. The producer, John Cigarini, strolled in at midday in shades and T-shirt, ignoring me (an elephantine hausfrau, eight months pregnant), and startled the nanny and children by placing his trainers on the kitchen table, seizing our phone and dictating a long Sunday Times classified ad: ‘1969 Mercedes convertible for sale – whitewall tyres, stereo system’ etc. The cheek! He then went outside, fell into his open-top Merc and snoozed all afternoon while his crew toiled on. Michael Russell, who has died in Norfolk aged 86, was a publisher, wit and author, especially notable in the latter capacity for writing the spoof memoir Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days (1991), by J R Hartley.

When people participate in the search, the ads are no longer confined to promotions, they become culture makers, as the original ad did. And, like Michael Russell did with his book, it can lead to new business development opportunities. Mead recalls the ad could have been quite different though. Abbott’s first script was for a book on European butterflies, with the second ad set to be about a man trying to buy his daughter a pony. But after doing some research he decided “butterflies and ponies were a bit too elitist”, so they instead settled on a book on fly fishing for the first ad and a father finding a bike for his son in the second, which aired in 1985. I loved the whole adventure: meeting the famous director Bob Brooks and the actor Norman Lumsden (a veteran opera singer) playing JRH, and having the house transformed with Victorian whatnots, antimacassars, cache-pots, jardinières – and wall-mounted glass cases containing prize trout.

With their first child imminent, they decided to leave London, taking on a 21-year lease of The Chantry, a fine house in Wilton, near Salisbury, at a peppercorn rent.

Vines, Sidney (November 30, 1991). "A whopper landed by central casting". The Spectator. pp.46–47. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021 . Retrieved May 18, 2021.Mr Lumsden was better known for his talents as a singer in his youth, as the famous British composer, Benjamin Britten, was an admirer of his vocal prowess. He had been honoured by the composer, who wrote the roles of Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring, especially for his deep bass voice. Many anglers focus on using midges for fly fishing during the first two months of spring, using all forms, including the pupa and nymphs. Then, the caddis will start to hatch and the trout will begin to feed on the larger flies that are appearing in numbers. Canny anglers can enjoy success with fly fishing for an entire day with the correct bait in the right conditions. Spring is a particularly popular time for fly fishing, as more insects make it on to the trout's menu, so keen anglers can create flies using bait such as midges, mayflies, caddis flies and stoneflies. Almost 75% of the insect life at this time of year centres on these bug categories. Furthermore, as he explained in Good Moments (1992), his delightful memoir about the business, he understood that “the cost of producing a decently laid-out book is more or less the same as producing something that looks a mess.”