Ah'll Sithee

This a pictorial message to my dear friend H.

For the rest of you, it alludes to a phrase made famous by the great Yorkshire fast-bowler Freddie Trueman.

Fiery Fred played for Yorkshire for 19 years and played 67 test matches for England. He was the first Englishman to take 300 test wickets.

His death in 2006 was mourned like the death of a king in Yorkshire and a statue of him in full flight can be seen in his home town of Skipton.

In the 1970s Trueman presented the Yorkshire Television ITV programme Indoor League, which was broadcast at 5.15 pm on a Thursday evening, after the children's programmes. This show had a notably Northern, working class focus, and featured pub games such as darts, bar billiards, shove ha'penny, skittles and arm-wrestling. Trueman anchored the programme with a pint of bitter and his pipe to hand, and signed off each week with his catchphrase, "Ah'll sithee" (Yorkshire dialect for "I'll be seeing you").