A Far Fetched Resolution

I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council, a Labour council hiring taxis to scuttle round the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers. I’ll tell you.. You can’t play politics with people’s jobs and with people’s services.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The simple bear necessities, yer maj

This otherwise pretty uninteresting article contains one totally bizarre paragraph which for some reason caught my eye....

"The Queen is hosting the tea party in the Palace gardens to celebrate Britain's favourite children's stories. Much loved characters from both traditional and more modern books will be there such as Tracy Beaker, Paddington Bear, Mowgli, Winnie the Pooh and the Gruffalo."

Surely not? Does the Queen even serve Marmalade? What does Debrett's say?

posted by Pickles @ 7:43 pm  

6 Comments:

  • At 10:28 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    what's a gruffalo?

     

  • At 1:33 pm, Blogger Pickles said…

    I believe it is a creature from a modern childrens story. Certainly not one any more than 10 or 15 years old as I've never heard of it.

    I suspect it's unlikely to be showing up at the palace in any case.

     

  • At 2:16 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    i have now googled it. it looks cute and has a song but i don't recognise it. http://www.gruffalo.com/index2.html

     

  • At 5:16 pm, Blogger Pickles said…

    I have now linked to this in order to prevent further confusion.

     

  • At 6:22 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Come on Lola, get with the 21st Century... :)

     

  • At 6:43 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    glad to see you are responding to feedback, wing commander

     

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