We've just met the mayor in his parlour! Brilliant! He shook hands with Wilson and congratulated him on his Cultural Mystery Tour of Uckfield and the work he has done to promote Uckfield on the world stage in the fields of catering, philosophy and medicine.
Wilson thanked him gravely, then told him the anteater joke he'd told me -- but happily without the embarrassing after-effects. The Mayor laughed appreciatively and put his arm round W's shoulders. Then Wilson asked whether there was a cash prize at all?
What could have been an awkward moment was defused when the Mayor laughed again and told him what he had for Wilson was something money couldn't buy.
We were then ushered by the Mayor into the Mayoral Limousine. The three of us sat together in the back (where I'm emailing this from now) and were driven off…
I'll let you know what happens next as soon as I can.
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