... and even odder

SOON after my wife and I moved into a small thatched cottage on the green in a sleepy Norfolk village, I bumped into the local vicar (imagine Alan Bennett).

After we’d had a brief chat, he asked: ‘ Is your wife a Catholic?’ and I said: ‘As a matter of fact she is.’

He replied: ‘Thought so. Her eyes are too close together.’

Harry steBBinG, Great Hockham, norfolk.