Nothing Serious (short story collection)
Bingo wants to talk to Valerie over dinner, but this may seem suspicious since Rosie is out of town, so he tells Byles he is unwell and going to bed.
The next day, fellow Drones Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright tell Bingo that Horace won the contest.
The title derives from an advertising slogan, "Skegness is so bracing", made famous by the 1908 poster, The Jolly Fisherman.
Seeing the blonde woman again, Freddie is perplexed when she suddenly breaks into a run and an angry elderly man follows her.
Depressed by the memory of being punished there, Freddie steps outside and sees, over the fence, the blonde girl waving at him from a window.
Ambrose asks Evangeline to let him give her a golf lesson, but she has a low opinion of the game and refuses, so he becomes a tennis player.
Dwight gave a party the previous night and drank a lot, but blames his condition on the caviare for being whitefish roe coloured with powdered charcoal.
Her aunt tells Ambrose that Evangeline is upset, because nobody her remembered her birthday, though Dwight had promised to buy a parrot for her.
Sidney McMurdo and Agnes Flack also appear in "Those in Peril on the Tee", "Tangled Hearts", "Scratch Man", and "Sleepy Time".
The Oldest Member says that it is important to have a true golfing spirit, and tells the following story about Sidney McMurdo and Agnes Flack.
At the seaside resort of East Bampton, Agnes is happy she is engaged to Sidney and swims cheerfully, splashing and singing.
Jealous, Sidney heads to Jack Fosdyke's cottage and finds him cleaning a notched elephant gun.
A simplified reworking of "Excelsior" by Wodehouse was published under the title "Keep Your Temper, Walter" in the US in This Week in 1956 and in the UK in John Bull in 1957.
The Oldest Member realizes that Rodney, who used to be a poet but became a mystery writer instead after taking up golf and marrying Anastatia seven years ago, is having a relapse into poetry.
William pities Timothy, and shows the Oldest Member some early drafts of Rodney's poems for children.
He thinks it is a good sign when Rodney enters the Rabbits Umbrella, a local competition open to those with a handicap of eighteen or over.
Jane tells the Oldest Member that Timothy has started acting in an annoying, exaggeratedly cute way and talks about things like flowers and fairies to get attention.
The Oldest Member is pleased to see that Rodney takes the match seriously and does not pay attention to birds or anything poetic.
At the eighteenth hole, Timothy returns and again acts cute by showing a posy of wild flowers to Stocker.
Timothy returns once more and puts on yet another act, surprising Rodney while he is swinging his club, making him lose the competition.
She is a champion golfer and wants to win, but it becomes evident that another competitor, Julia Prebble, was under-handicapped, apparently because she is engaged to a member of the handicapping committee.
However, he hopes to make a lot of money from a ten-pound investment he made to a man called MacSporran, who claimed he could extract gold from seawater.
She came to the cricket match to shoot wads of tin foil at some of the spectators with a piece of elastic, and hits Lord Plumpton.
The President is unwilling to take any action against her because she is American and he does not want an international incident, so Lord Plumpton instead disinherits Conky.
Conky thinks he cannot marry Clarissa because he does not have money or a job, but she solves the problem by suggesting he work as a yes-man, or at least a nodder, at her father's company.
Three weeks prior, the man who offered Ukridge this position told him he needed to acquire dress clothes.
Seeking five pounds to buy secondhand dress clothes, Ukridge goes to his Aunt Julia's house, The Cedars, for a loan.
Ukridge learns the master of ceremonies job will only be open for another twenty-four hours, and regrets rejecting Oakshott's money.
"Bramley Is So Bracing" was illustrated by James Williamson in The Saturday Evening Post and by Gilbert Wilkinson in the Strand.
[16] "Excelsior" was included in the 1952 anthology The Best Humor Annual, edited by Louis Untermeyer and Ralph E. Shikes, and published by Henry Holt, New York.
