"“Polly, put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.."
~Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
They’ve all gone away.
~Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
It seems fitting that during this year celebrating 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, that we tea lovers should sing the Mother Goose rhyme documented by Dickens in the novel, Barnaby Rudge.
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,They’ve all gone away.
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge and have to say I'm finding it hard going. I feel no sympathy for the characters (including Barnaby himself) and can't find a coherent plot thread anywhere in the first third of the book. I'm persevering in the hope that the tale of the Gordon riots lives up to the reviewers' promise of fine story-telling.
