WELCOME BACK POOH

Aha, some good news in the world at last! After weeks of Middle East chaos, credit crunch despair and the blight of freezing weather to-boot, the Yahoo headlines offers "New Winnie the Pooh Adventures". Though Pooh has rarely been off a childs bookshelf and more recently found its way into being cartooned fairly sympathetically, there are to be new adventures written by David Benedictus who was responsible for adapting original stories for CD.
Not all old things are wonderful but since the mid 1920's when Pooh was originated by A.A. Milne there can be few children who haven't been enchanted by this simple bear with "very little brain". Whilst the accompanying illustrations by E. A. Shephard engraved the expressions of each of Milnes characters into the mind of us all, I'm hopeful that there will once again be room for a re-birth. Then again I do so hope that Eeyore isn't going to find too much happiness, that Tigger insn't confined to play Wii games indoors and that Piglet isn't going to have to curtail his bossyness. Imagine, can't you, that Pooh may be restricted his hunny binges lest he becomes obese!! Suddenly I feel pangs of concern. Will Christopher Robin still be allowed to float his pooh sticks into the stream at the Hundred Acre Wood without his parents watching his every move? I have personally owned various Pooh bears over the decades. The favourite, now almost 30 years old features in my wedding album as a special guest! Whilst he looks somewhat grubby, not terribly rotund and has somehow, lost a bit of his smile, he has witnessed a lot of ups and provided much comfort and amusement at No.5, so with some reservation, that of one who doubts the new can ever be as good as the original, I look forward to Pooh's revival in more than 50 languages including Latin! Carpe Dieum Pooh!!!