Learning About Marmalade
Queen Elizabeth’s skit with Paddington Bear sparked my curiousity
As much as I enjoy the pomp and ceremony of events like the Trooping of the Colours to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majest Queen Elizabeth II I think the part I enjoyed the most was this:
I remembered reading the Paddington Bear books as a child. The first ones came out not long after I was born. The author, Michael Bond, was inspired to write the books after noticing a lone teddy bear sitting on a shop shelf in London, near the Paddington Station on Christmas Eve. He bought it as a present for his wife.
I loved the books. I’d read them and of course Winnie the Pooh, inspired by a bear cub named after the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba by a Canadian soldier who had managed to take the bear to England on his way to fight in WW1. They were delightful stories with many lessons for a youngster to learn about caring for others.
I’d listened to Prince Charle’s tribute to his mother at the concert for her before I saw the Paddington clip. At the time I…
