Don’t PANIC!
Permission to speak, Sir?’ ‘Oh, very well – what is it, Jones?’ ‘It’s your moustache, Captain Mainwaring – it’s all skew-whiff, Sir. I’d like to volunteer to straighten it, Sir.’
‘Thank you, Corporal Jones, but I am perfectly capable of straightening my own moustache.’
‘I thought, what with you being a lady, Sir, and not greatly experienced in the wiles and stratagems of gentlemen’s moustaches…’
Elaine Farthing sighs, takes out a make-up mirror from her battledress and carefully adjusts the moustache in question. It is, after all, one of the touches – along with the little round glasses and the homemade uniform – that transform her into Captain George Mainwaring of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard.
‘Is that better, Corporal?’
‘Very smart, Sir. Very smart,’ says Jones, played by Barry Chambers, who – as luck would have it – is also a rather excitable butcher. He could have been made for the part.
Every year for the past decade, Elaine’s husband, Gary, and a group of his friends have spent a weekend in East Anglia to. They stay in a comfortable (and very understanding) hotel. They dress in character, they visit the Dad’s Army Museum and some of the programme locations, and enjoy long walks and pub visits.
