Dicky

"HAVE YOU EVER been to Rome?" asks Dicky Gobble one day last week, and when I respond in the negative, he goes on, "Oh, don't go! It's terrible. Everything is falling down. It's full of ruins!"

And so deadpan is his expression that it takes me a moment to realise that this is a classic example of his sense of humour.

The more I think about it, the funnier it becomes.

It's like the time Dicky was told that Gaz, the Pub's manager, and his girlfriend had gone to London for the weekend, and he asked ever so innocently, "What's he doing - with a girl in London?"

Dicky - just one of the characters you can encounter at the Pub...