WW3 and The Civil Service
 

Sir Humphrey is down at the Givernment Archives researching plans for WW3 and has come across this gem.

I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby receiving Bernard’s draft for the minister and coaching him on how to reword it…..

Ermmm... Link? ahh found it, Twitter links do not show unless i quote the post for some strange reason.

Both of the above blue underlined links appear to work

Notwithstanding the HIG which were liberally strategically located around this great island of ours which the MoD knew about.

A load of balls
 

Minister writes side note on memo ‘Spherical objects’
Later, Sir Humphrey enquires; ‘who is Spherical, and to what does he object?’

Use a small bothy between Gare Lock and Lock Long.

Remember to store the artworks upside down. That way you can have a final look as you're kissing your harris goodbye!

CG

That is apparently from a story about Churchill towards the end of the War - he wrote 'Round objects' in the margin of a memo, only to be asked by an aide who Round was and why did he object?

I read it here on PPRuNe.

My dad, a life long civil servant, would have loved that!