Archdruid: Here's a house.
All: Here's the door. Windows- 1, 2, 3, 4.
Archdruid: Ready to play?
All: Not really. Brian Cant has died.
Archdruid: Oh no. How's Hamble?
All: Sad.
Archdruid: Jemima?
All: Sad.
Archdruid: Big and Little Ted?
All: Sad.
Archdruid: Humpty?
All: He's a stuffed egg, devoid of emotions. Don't be so stupid.
Archdruid: What's through the round window?
All: Our lives, drifting past like ripples on the stream.
Archdruid: Square window?
All: Same.
Archdruid: Arched...
All: Same. They're all showing our childhoods melting. First Noakes, then Sallis. Now this.
Archdruid: Oh well. All flesh is as grass.
All: And all Play Schools came to an end.
Archdruid: You remember the biscuit factory?
All: Aaaah.
Oh. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI have often rowed across the floor in a cardboard box (using two wooden spoons) to another world ever since I saw him do it....
Lots of memories watching with my sons especially his voice over: 'Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.'
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