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October 30, 2006
Barsetshire
The Mayor of Barsetshire, Mr Craven Thornbush, has written to the head of the Conservatory Party, Mr Simon Templar, to ask if he and Mr and Mrs Dumpling can be part of Mr Templar's cricket team.
Readers of this blog will recognise that it is Mr and Mrs Dumpling who are in charge of parks and libraries in Barsetshire who have removed all the books from libraries and put them on the benches in the park. Library shelves are now full of cream cakes and the libraries have been changed into Recovery Centres.
Mrs Dumpling is famous for having called old Ms Jane Austen "The Trollope of Barset"
Mr Simon Templar is decent young man with far more common sense than everybody else and the dash that we have been seeking, between the wickets, etc. He is unlikely to pick these travellers for his team. They are not fit but they are fiddlers.
Posted by Tim Coates at October 30, 2006 3:24 PM