Pete and Gid catch up on last night's T20 and the early stages of The Hundred, before a discussion of the literary career of the late Eric Midwinter leads to an unforeseen ramble about hair oil. No really, it does.
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My mum has just come up with the Brylcreem song.
Brylcream, a little dab’ll do ya,
Brylcream, you’ll look so debonair,
Brylcream, the girls’ll pursue ya,
Simply rub a little in ya hair!
Eric Midwinter and his contemporaries would have been well aware that "Brylcreem Boys" was a slang term, usually used witj a mixture of disparigment and envy, to refer to fighter pilots within the wartime RAF but which broadened to encompass any member of the RAF in general. Sqn Ldr Bill Edrich DFC was very much a Brylcreem Boy in this sense, as was Keith Miller.