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June 22, 2006
Memoires of a Custard Cream
I confidently predict that on the radio on Saturday Mr Custard Cream will give a reading from volume 7 of his memoires which is entitled "A la recherche de la confiture" or "Jam Tomorrow" as it is often translated. The famous opening line " As I put my head on the pillow I realised that jam tomorrow has come today" will ring across the airwaves. This is of course a celebration of Mr Custard Cream's recent appointment as Head of Procrastination at the DLA, the Department of Libraries and Archives (De;Lay)
If you haven't heard it before listen out for the story of how Mr and Mrs Dumpling closed two libraries in Barchester and the one they opened in their place is a roaring success. This, of course, bears no relation to the true story of the libraries of Barchester which have both closed for two years and will re-open as one Recovery Centre, with a fine collection of chocolate sponge cakes where the books used to be. The new Recovery Centre is expected to cost the same as the Scottish Parliament Building. (in Scotland)
Posted by Tim Coates at June 22, 2006 9:37 PM
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And don't forget the unlimited access to virtual teacake over the internet via the online version of the OET (The Oxford English Teatime, ed). My library can't afford real teacake, and I'm so grateful to Mr Custard Cream and the DLA for allowing me virtual teacake wherever and whenever I want. I am getting used to it, but am I alone in not finding it quite so satisfying as what we old duffers think of as 'the real thing'.
Posted by: Elgar Atkins at June 22, 2006 10:52 PM