| | 2003 | Barbados | Sri Lanka 1995 | S.America 1999 | Miscellany | |
| Reproduced from the 60th Birthday edition of Manningisms |
| "I’m making my debut with the camera. I cocked it up last night when I got my photo in front of the flash" "I’m just waiting for the clouds to go in" "I don't know what the mathematicians are of that bit of thing" "My eyes were facing the wrong way" "You've just contradicted your dietship" "How big is Asia? Is it India & Pakistan? I wasn't very good at Geography. Or is it China as well?" "I'd like to tear off his arsehole and push it up his backside" "I'm trying to raise the Titanic upstairs" "Are you short-sighted, Neal?" "No, my eyes are the other way round!" "I'm not a temple man myself. I've been to the one in Bangkok, which is in the Premier League of temples. Colombo is only the Endsleigh League" "Bugger me, I'm always wrong - at least I've kept consistent" "I've brought my cricket shoes to play golf. I like to play in my own feet" "I'm going for a dip in the H20. That's the code for water, it's been the same for centuries" "You're a top Picasso aren't you. In other words a Peter painter. In other words you're up here painting or you're a slap & tickle merchant - sort of emulsion job. I'm black & white. No grey!" "I consider myself a bit of a Napoleon down in the Cesses - a Napoleon Solo!" "I'll be very surprised if everything is at the status quo as now" "They used a bit of psychology this morning, but is won't work tomorrow - we'll be un-psychologised" "I don't feel a picture of health" "I'm gonna lay down and meditate myself" "The vagrancies of the roll" "Sri Lanka's a third nation country" "It's all charabanged from there" "I can't do seven nights a week anymore - I'm no sprint chicken" "If the baggage isn't there when you get there, send for the S.O.S" "It's not as far as the crow flies, except the crow can't fly there" "It'll be easier to do it all at once rather than not at all" "He thought he'd left something behind, but he hadn't, but his thought looked as if he had, but he hadn't" |
| Regimental Tour of Sri Lanka 1995 (from the 60th Birthday edition) |
| | 2003 | Barbados | Sri Lanka 1995 | S.America 1999 | Miscellany | |