I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels. I’ve read most of them. The one character that got stuck in my head which gets a mention every now and again is an Ankh-Morpork landscape gardener and inventor called Bergholt Stuttley Johnson or better known as : Bloody Stupid “It Might Look A Bit Messy Now But Just You Come Back In Five Hundred Years’ Time” Johnson or Bloody Stupid “Look, The Plans Were The Right Way Round When I Drew Them” Johnson Imagine my surprise when I saw that
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