All this month of July the editorial staff of Bitsnbobs have shut themselves away in the distant archives. They hope to turn up a few gems, but whatever they find THERE will appear HERE.
Although the trip to
The Archives is timely, fraught with danger and shrouded in excessive mystery-
they are not as cut of from the outside world as many people think. They are in
fact alive and news reaches Mrs Penny even as it is imagined and readers
comments on this blog are filed separately for the attention of Bundle her dog
- who usually chews them up. So when recently a reader from overseas suggested
the archives resembled The Circumlocution Office from one of
Dickens' books, Mrs Penny diligently cross-referenced with the external
archives (ah yes! The Archives themselves have archives!!) before giving Bundle
his supper. She turned up the following– "a name employed by Charles Dickens in
his serial novel Little
Dorrit (1855–1857) to designate wearisome government bureaucracy."
Let it be stated that The Bitsnbobs Archives are in no way supported by, or supportive off, government bureaucracy.
They are wearisome only to the already weary (to paraphrase Samuel Johnson).
(And maybe to readers).
To the researcher they are a tearful joy and
i may never leave them.
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2 comments:
Not weary or wearisome. No hidden agenda. LD's Circumlocution Office is just plain good funny writing -- government bureaucracy being the inspiration. Thought you would find it interesting and worth a laugh.
Mx
PS -- Hello to Ms. Penny and Bundle [of Joy, no doubt.] Excellent work being done in the heat of summer.
:-)
Woof, woof!
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