[sushiman]

To Tristan when Mrs. Hall was away and Tristan did the cooking : “ Bangers for breakfast , bangers for lunch , bangers for dinner . I’m even beginning to dream about bangers . Battalions of bangers marching inexorably toward me with YOU at their head ! I shall never look another banger straight in the eye again . Until Mrs. Hall returns , I’m eating out ! “

[miss marmelstein]

The real Siegfried was so incensed with his portrait in the book that James Herriott was forced to tone him down and then get rid of him entirely in the sequels. One reason I suspect that Robert Hardy played him as a gentle squire rather than the eccentric nutcase he really was. But who cares? He was wonderful, anyway.