The Professor Peregrine Papers

In an attempt to acquire the status of reliable biographer, I decided to interview some of the Professor's ex-colleagues and other mountebanks in order to record their reflections on his career and table manners. Oddly, most of them seemed to be untraceable or to have entered religious institutions which insisted on a vow of silence.  I did, however, receive a reply to my request for an interview from Hildebrand van Hildebrand, Emeritus Professor of Imaginary Solutions at Strabismus University. That reply consisted largely of a recipe for bridecake but concluded with the following heartwarming memoir: “How we laughed in that long-lost but fateful summer! How we relished the talk of our aspirations, of our hopes and of our admiration for the cover drives of Walter “Wally” Hammond at the Oval on a challenging pitch in poor light conditions!  I will always remember the advice of dear old Peregrine as he raised his head one evening from his habitual study of the aphorisms of Mr Clarenc