Dear LPG

I am 83 years old and Winnie-the-Pooh is older than me.  He is old enough to have lived through one world war; old enough to have existed throughout the reign of four English monarchs and 20 changes of UK government.  He delighted young children while the UK entered the EU and is most likely to still be around when we are really and truly out again.

He was also lucky enough to have missed the trauma of babyhood and going to school, getting married, and having children, and his eating habits have not affected his health too much either.  But instead he has been delighting children around the world throughout all that time, through the medium of books and films, with beautiful uncomplicated stories.

He was there for me during my war-torn childhood and surely proved to provide degrees of normality for many of the children who had to live through that time.  Even now everyone knows who he is and I am reading his stories to my great grandchildren.

I hope to get to his age and maintain an outlook on life, which is as uncomplicated as his.  So, though a little late for the 90^th anniversary of his introduction to the children of the world, I would like to pay a little tribute to this fictitious celebrity

UR, Lee

There have to be very few children, of any age, who have not heard of Winnie-the-Pooh but LPG, as ever, found a few facts about him and his creator A. A. Milne to share with our readers…

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