I don't suppose I'll watch that brass band programme with Sue Perkins again, but I keep smiling at one line in it. This particular brass-band is a family thing and their instrument seems to have been chosen for them at a young age to fill in any gaps in the band. The now elderly leader of the band was recalling a conversation she had when she was a child with her own mother over birthday presents.
I said "I want a pony".
She said "You're not getting a pony. You're getting a flugelhorn."
Alan Bennett has since annexed this story for his latest play for northern voices "Camden".
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