Busman's Honeymoon with severe head injuries. A "busman's holiday" is a holiday spent by a bus driver travelling on a bus: it is no break from his usual routine. By analogy, anyone who spends his holiday doing his normal job is taking a "busman's holiday". After an engagement of some months following the events at the end of "Gaudy Night", Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry. They plan to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Harriet's native Hertfordshire which Wimsey has bought for her, and they abscond from the wedding reception, evading the assembled reporters. Arriving late at
Rosemary Leach played the part of Anna in BBC Radio 4's "No Commitments", and Susan Harper's mother Grace in "My Family". She made a guest appearance as 'Bessie' on "Waterloo Road" (the TV series), in Series 3 Spring Term. Since 1994, she has made occasional appearances in "The Archers" as Ellen Rogers, the ex-pat aunt of Nigel Pargetter. She portrayed Miss Twitterton in the Radio 4 adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey story "Busman's Honeymoon", first broadcast in 1983. In 2001, she played a leading role in "Destroying Angel", an episode of "Midsomer Murders". She played Queen Elizabeth II three times: in