Legend leaves for ever… or for a bit anyway

It’s been an emotional day, and a deeply tearful evening looms too, as Harold Bishop sets sail from Erinsborough to go and live on a sexually liberated commune with a gang of foreign students. Neighbours will be a weaker show for it. After all, great as Lou Carpenter is, his head is just too boulder-like, and his voice lacks the velvet Bishop smooth. He was an intelligent and decent man.

To put it all in perspective, here’s a few things that happened when we first met Harold (then known as The Fonze - we think), way back in 1987:

1. Pat Cash, another Australian man, won Wimbledon.

2. Wayne Rooney was two.

3. Everton won Division One.

4. Norwich were the fifth best football team in England.

5. Alex Ferguson’s eyes weren’t yet buried beneath a puffy cushion made of sleep deprivation.

6. England won the Ashes.

Amazing.