‘Well, not for a while anyway,’ she said. ‘I’ll keep that to look forward to.’ ‘Been there, done that,’ she said, when people suggested things she might like to do. The trouble was that people kept suggesting boring old lady things. ‘What about embroidery?’ said Mordonna. ‘Or lawn bowls?’ said Nerlin. ‘Never been there, never done that, never going to do that,’ said the Queen Mother as she bid for a Turbo Microlight Personal Jet Transporter on eBay. ‘What about gardening?’ Mildred Flambard-Flood suggested. ‘A lot of old people do that.’ ‘Could do that,’ said the Queen Mother as she bid for twenty-five sticks of dynamite on bombBay. ‘Nice bit of landscape gardening.’ The Queen Mother’s husband, Vessel, the Duke Of That Other Place Across The Lake Whose Name I Can’t Remember, was also fed up with life at the royal court because of all the time he wasted when he had to say his name or listen to other people saying it. So he went to the other place across the lake whose name King Nerlin couldn’t remember to find out what it was called.
