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May 26, 2006
Barsetshire: Recovery Centres
Over the hill from Bloggington on Sea lie the rolling vales of Barsetshire.
Mrs Dumpling, the chief librarian of Barsetshire is a kindly lady who worries that many residents of the county do not use libraries. For them she makes scones and cream teas and provides string quartets playing Haydn. In fact she has decided that the books in the library are what puts people off. There is something about their seriousness and age that is too frightening and she has installed the television and shelves full of electronic games so as to lure the ordinary people of the county in.
As a consequence the nice people of Barsetshire don't have a library service any longer. Even though they pay £25m each year. Mrs Dumpling has removed the name "library" from the door and the buildings are now called "Recovery centres"
The best thing for Mrs Dumpling is to fall in the river; but what is strangest of all this lunatic saga is why the Mayor and Aldermen of Barset allow it all to happen. I suppose they must have their fingers in the honey pot, so to speak
Posted by Perkins at May 26, 2006 9:40 AM
Comments
This did make me giggle.
Now where would one dump Mrs Dumpling? Is there an ocean deep enough?
Posted by: Margo Harker at June 27, 2006 10:37 PM