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What was this fairytale/kids story??

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Hullothereitsme · 14/03/2023 19:28

I vividly remember this story but I seem to be the only one!!! Can anyone help please with what it was called?
it’s about a boy who is given a task, gets it wrong, tries to do the next task right by doing the thing for the previous task but by doing so, does the current task wrong (goes to get butter, puts it in the wrong thing not the butter jar, next time goes to get milk puts it in the butter jar not milk pail, next time goes to get something else puts it in the mail pail and so on).

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Labelledwithlove · 14/03/2023 19:34

It sounds like Silly Simon.

wobbleinprogress · 14/03/2023 19:45

Epaminondas?

Hullothereitsme · 14/03/2023 21:57

Thanks for the help but from the 60s and a story rather than a tv program. Definitely a made up story rather than the Theban general sorry

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Pinkfloweryellowflower · 14/03/2023 22:22

It sounds like the husbands from half the threads on mumsnet!

I hope someone knows though, so here’s a helpful bump :)

MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 14/03/2023 22:23

Silly Billy from the Teddy Bear Annual?

Catabogus · 14/03/2023 22:33

Lazy Jack: www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft28.htm

Catabogus · 14/03/2023 22:35

Actually, that’s quite a poor retelling of Lazy Jack - this one is better: www.longlongtimeago.com/once-upon-a-time/folktales/lazy-jack

Hullothereitsme · 15/03/2023 04:52

YES!!!
that’s it!!!
Thank you!!!

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