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Diary: Billett bashes out the hymns at secret party for John Ayling's 60th.(Brief Article)

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It's tricky knowing what to buy people of a certain age, isn't it?

If you buy them anything too fashionable, they end up looking ridiculous (friends and relatives of Andy Tilley, please note), but if you buy them something more fitting for their age - Derry boots or a foot spa, for instance - the chances are they'll never speak to you again.

Lyn Ayling, the devoted wife of the redoubtable media legend (and soon to be knight of the realm?) John Ayling, was faced with such a challenge as her old man approached his 60th birthday.

Her solution - hire the massed voices of the London Welsh Male Voice Choir and invite everyone's favourite media auditor and twice winner of choirboy of the year (1954 and 1955), John Billett, to tinkle the ivories as a cabaret act.

Everyone who is anyone was invited along to the black-tie celebrations in the Long Room at ...

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