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“Drop in on George at Friar Park.  He’s about to have his breakfast (onions, egg and peppers (green)).  I apologise for arriving too early, but George (half-way into a new beard) assures me that he’s been up a while, and out planting his fritillaries.  

He hasn’t heard that Brian is No. 1, but is greatly chuffed at the news and shakes my hand.  ‘Now you can all have one of these,’ says George, nodding round at Friar Park.  ‘The trouble is,’ I have to say, ‘I’m really happy where I am.’  ‘Nonsense, Palin,’ replies the Quiet One, ‘you’ll have a mansion and like it!’  I enjoy George’s company and I think he mine.  Despite all his trappings he’s a down-to-earth, easy-to-please character.”

- Michael Palin’s diary entry from October 6 1979.