it wasn't done consciously, but I think being able to read his lips must have helped me pick out what he was saying.
He recalled being knighted - he said he was summoned from the anteroom by someone calling "Yawn McLellan!" and he was so overcome by the occasion he thought "Oh my god, I've been pronouncing my own name wrong all these years." He wasn't madly impressed by HM's lime green ensemble, though.
Yes, still dull and damp here too, and chilly in the evenings. Still, on a scale of Beasts from the East, it's okay.