Posted by Roger Callan on April 14, 2007 at 21:13:50:
I live in New York City, so all the Brit TV we get here is a few months old. Recently we had a cute (!) rendition of Wind in the Willows, with Rat, Mole and the whole gang. Toad, was, of course, the centrepiece, quite mad, living in his manse. It reminded me quite forcefully of the McGuinness Manse in the corner of the property, built, as it were, by his own hand, hence the very strange interior configuration. But the entire teaching staff always referred to it as Toad Hall...