Mild and Bitter

'In Utopia, Perfect PlaceEverything's exactly right;No one's virtuous or base,There is neither Day nor Night.But where everything is rightNothing's left for which to fight'So goes A P Herbert's vision of Paradise, but whilst still this side of the pearly gates, the versatile APH finds plenty of subjects to satirize, criticize, lament and laugh over - be they such eternal preoccupations of gentlemen at cricket, smoking, privacy, speech day, or that most fearful duty of them all - being the father of the bride.