Random Memory #10

At university my kitchen walls were covered in pictures from magazines and newspapers, postcards, covers of pulp paperbacks, Sinatra LP covers, and other ephemera. The local pubs' salted peanuts were from a firm called Christie's, so the kitchen wall also featured empty packets amended in biro to celebrate famous Christie's: Agatha, Ian (film critic), John Reginald, Julie, and Stuart. The latter provoked puzzlement from a philistine housemate. I explained Start Christie was a Scottish anarchist, connected to The Angry Brigade, who'd spent many years in a Spanish prison for trying to assassinate Franco. The housemate thought about this for a while until the lightbulb flickered to life, and said, "Oh, right! Then when he came out of prison he started a peanut factory."