He is appalled, for example, that his local watering hole – part of the show from the start, as are its three adorable elderly bar flies – has introduced Chinese tapas ("It's two different countries, it's actually two different continents!").
Just ask the writer John Wray, who, while traveling there for "The Royal Wee" (Page 94), witnessed a local scandal involving an elderly bar owner who proudly lit up in protest against the country's smoking ban.
The government health programme for the elderly is barred from considering price at all when it decides whether to cover injected drugs under something called Medicare Part B. Under Part B's loopy reimbursement system, the more a drug costs, the more the oncologist who prescribes it is paid.
The second embassy, and probably the most famous, was that of the elderly cleric Rabban Bar Sauma, who had been visiting the Ilkhanate during a remarkable pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem.
It seems to be a street scene with a building, a prison, looming up; a woman offers an elderly man behind bars a breast and he drinks.
For the past five months, the elderly man behind bars at New Cairo's police academy has had to sit – or lie horizontal – as prosecutors steadily built their case against him, culminating in a dramatic demand that he be put to death by the state.
In "Reaching Rose," an elderly man in a bar uses the pay phone to make nightly calls to no one.
Instead, there are some vague claims apparently gathered in a bar about elderly Jews keeping their bags packed, "just in case".
In an espresso bar, an elderly woman assumes that they are husband and wife, and, after looking at each other blankly for a moment, they play along.
Referring to a nearby village, an elderly man at the bar piped up, "At Wisley, there are two sites, one for males and one for heteros".
Along the way she encounters kindness from such figures as the elderly owner of a bar she has passed out in, and a damaged young man called Dan.
