I met her for the first time when we stayed in the same hotel this summer - she's married to my old friend Rod and was highly amused when I revealed Rod and I had dined together eight times since the 60s and I had paid every time. Rod, blushing, demanded he paid for dinner that night. I refused. Why break the habit of a Scotstime - oops, I mean lifetime?

Seemed a very nice, very attractive lady, despite being Australian.

I rather like this latest development of reliving past sex experiences. Now it will be models emerging from the woodwork. Recently - actresses. We've had football failures. DJs, music - all translating mild past experiences into new Misery novels.

And why not? Our dear police forces have little else to do and historical allegations are deliciously time consuming, allowing trips abroad, long lunches, weekend breaks, very little actual effort. I always remember the horrid DCI Marjoram of beastly Surrey Police managing an expenses paid holiday in Sri Lanka in order to scupper my appeal or, to put it officially, to investigate a historical false allegation. That was before he bungled the Milly Dowler investigation and took early retirement into a luxury mansion in Surrey. Ah life! What larks.

JK2006 wrote:
I met her for the first time when we stayed in the same hotel this summer - she's married to my old friend Rod and was highly amused when I revealed Rod and I had dined together eight times since the 60s and I had paid every time. Rod, blushing, demanded he paid for dinner that night. I refused. Why break the habit of a Scotstime - oops, I mean lifetime?

Seemed a very nice, very attractive lady, despite being Australian.

I rather like this latest development of reliving past sex experiences. Now it will be models emerging from the woodwork. Recently - actresses. We've had football failures. DJs, music - all translating mild past experiences into new Misery novels.

And why not? Our dear police forces have little else to do and historical allegations are deliciously time consuming, allowing trips abroad, long lunches, weekend breaks, very little actual effort. I always remember the horrid DCI Marjoram of beastly Surrey Police managing an expenses paid holiday in Sri Lanka in order to scupper my appeal or, to put it officially, to investigate a historical false allegation. That was before he bungled the Milly Dowler investigation and took early retirement into a luxury mansion in Surrey. Ah life! What larks.


It is very odd. Having seen how distressed she was, I have no doubt she is telling the truth, but I dont understand why she keeps announcing it on Loose Women. Shortly after she was hired she was talking about being attacked when she was a child.
We have to know about incidents like this so it can be dealt with and avoided, but do we need to know the details thirty years later? It is like there is a weird sisterhood of abused women going on.

I think you've hit it with the word "Sisterhood". Funnily enough, my most ardent and kindest supporters have been female but that enormous battalion of feminists seems unable to consider the fact that many women, like many men, exaggerate or are deluded or slightly colour up incidents to make a better story.

JK2006 wrote:


Seemed a very nice, very attractive lady, despite being Australian.



Oops - Penny Lancaster is English (born in Chelmsford). Maybe you're confusing her with one of Rod's previous wives, Rachel Hunter, who also wasn't an Australian but was born in New Zealand.