Paddington Bear is genuinely one of the Britains’ finest cultural creations, gonna make a marmalade sandwich for tea in his honour
I was amazed to discover he was still alive last year. Bloody good innings.
Gotta squeeze Brian Cant in there too.
And Hart of course isn’t just dead, he’s double dead.
and Leo Baxendale, and I know it’s a few years ago now but I’m still gutted about Oliver Postgate
and Neil Buchanan obvs
And Bodger
Shit it’s all kicking off isn’t it.
When I worked at a book magazine my colleague interviewed him and said he was as lovely as you’d hope.
He actually had a small cameo in the recent film, which is very sweet.
Imagine giving the world as much pleasure as he did.
My daughter wrote him a fan letter some years back and he sent a handwritten response. A proper old-school gent and no mistake.
Would be great if by the end of the day it was surrounded by marmalade jars. And an inflatable ET.
Can’t wait to have kids and read them the books and tell them that they were written by a lovely man