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Wise words from Auntie.
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captain clutterbuck
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In Roy Clarke's other show featuring a miserly shopkeeper I love the line when Arkwright gets a customer complaint about a fly being found in a currant bun " I'm sorry we don't do refunds but if you bring the fly in I'll exchange it for a currant" just pure writing [and acting] brilliance 
Adanor
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Speaking of currents, these are small dried fruits that are grown on bushes. They are not usually available in the US because at one time commercial cultivation of them was outlawed due to the belief that they were spreading disease affecting the timber industry. Instead small dried grapes were imported and called currents due to a mistranslation of the word, Corinth. Today these are known as Zante currents. So strange that I cannot obtain actual real currents.