Letters Bee

The power of words? Rubbish! The power of letters is the thing! Let me demonstrate. Let us take, for instance, Mystic Meg. For those among you who are sort of foreign types, and by that I mean no disrespect, as there are many good things about being a foreign type, one example of which is that we have the misfortune of knowing who Mystic Meg was already, and you have the advantage of having a cultural background without that, which is why I'm having to explain it to you (don't worry, it's not bad, it's actually having it in your collective consciousness that's bad, not hearing about it - it's like the difference between being in a war and reading about it) - anyway, Mystic Meg was a risible 'psychic' that appeared on the dreadful National Lottery programme on the telly, probably risible even compared with what you'd expect. She's gone now, as they thought they should put some new rubbish on the telly. But she can be redeemed, my friends, oh yes, with the power of a letter.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a big round of applause for Mystic Mog! Mog, in case you don't know, was a cat, in the Mog books by Judith Kerr, for kids, which are great. I was too old for most of them as they started coming out very slowly, but I was young enough for the first one, Mog the Forgetful Cat, which ca

Cover of Mog the Forgetful Cat

me out the year before I was born. I was young enough for the second one, which came out when I was five, but I probably didn't see it in time. I will never be old enough for the last one, Goodbye Mog, which came out when I was thirty-one, because in that one Mog dies. It is a lie, Mog will never die, just like me. So anyway, Mog persists, and Mog could put a turban (like a performing 'psychic' woman, not like a Sikh, I'm not a racist) and a serious face on and sit up on a chair at a little round table with a tablecloth on it, gazing into a crystal ball in the centre of the little table, with the aforementioned serious face look, and that would be much better than Mystic Meg, wouldn't it? One letter, you see? Even Mastic Meg would be better than Mystic Meg, although still not that good, unless you're a builder. Certainly not a patch on Mystic Mog in general use. However, I wouldn't want Mastic Meg or especially Mystic Mog to degrade themselves by appearing on that there National Lottery programme on the telly, so perhaps it's best that it was how it was. I'm starting to feel some sympathy for Mystic Meg now, a tragic figure, cannon fodder, sacrificed so that Mastic Meg and Mystic Mog were spared the indignity of appearing on the National Lottery programme on the telly. I'd better stop this now. That's my problem, you see. I'm just too soft.

that's all from me for now

see you around

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