BUSYNESS

'There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew
Who had so many things which he wanted to do
That, whenever he thought it was time to begin,
He couldn't because of the state he was in.'
AA Milne, 'The Old Sailor' in Now We Are Six, p.36.

TIME

'Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday...'

AA Milne, Winnie the Pooh, p.2.

FOOLISHNESS

'Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.'

AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, p.50.