Nothing in the various works of Lance Corporal Woodcome reflects the suffocating creeds of our sad and humourless times. His 'tutorials' and 'histories' provide a holiday from so-called Political Correctness and all associated buffoonery, and could revive a sense of fun in those whose sensibilities have not been permanently eradicated. To his detractors, I venture that Woodcombe might well have replied with a simple Dickensian quotation: - Some can be merry: some can be wise. I can be merry but you can be neither.