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{{a|myth|<center><youtube>https://youtu.be/-eZpHphhgpo</youtube></center><br>Sadly not the weather sketch, but a super news item about the divorce courts.}}{{quote|“And now the weather. It will be soaking in Woking, cool in Goole, dry in Rye, and in [[Lissingdown]], you’ll need an umbrella.”
{{a|myth|{{image|Lissingdown|jpg|Lissingdown yesterday.}}}}{{quote|“And now the weather. It will be soaking in Woking, cool in Goole, dry in Rye, and in [[Lissingdown]], you’ll need an umbrella.”
:—Ronnie Barker}}
:—Ronnie Barker}}
There is an ivy-covered cottage near the village church in Lissingdown, with an old ram and a couple of angry geese in the yard, where the [[Jolly Contrarian]] does most of his writing. [[Lissingdown]] also doubles as the fictional settlement where the General Counsel headquarters (GCHQ) are based, and forever under attack, in [[Hunter Barkley]]’s [[Opco Boone]] stories.
There is an ivy-covered cottage near the village church in Lissingdown, with an old ram and a couple of angry geese in the yard, where the [[Jolly Contrarian]] does most of his writing.
 
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Myths and legends of the market
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“And now the weather. It will be soaking in Woking, cool in Goole, dry in Rye, and in Lissingdown, you’ll need an umbrella.”

—Ronnie Barker

There is an ivy-covered cottage near the village church in Lissingdown, with an old ram and a couple of angry geese in the yard, where the Jolly Contrarian does most of his writing.