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nineveh_uk and I are very bad for each other. During a perfectly civilised and sensible discussion over on the Peter Wimsey mailing list about whether Peter had ever seen Bunter's impressions of "the talkies", she observed:

This raises the question of just when Peter has seen Bunter off-duty (other than in the war). Do they go out on the town together?

To which I replied:

I totally think they did! Possibly they ran into each other on an occasion when Peter was utterly inebriated and the Hon Freddy could no longer walk,
and since Bunter had had the evening off and was several over the eight himself, they went to visit some places of disrepute that Bunter happened to
know about.

The next thing I knew, she was writing fic on the bus and sending me snippets, and of course I couldn't help myself, and had to have a go as well, proceeding from the same starting point.

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