To be shocked at finding Rolf Harris in ds' Biff and Chip book

[Paulacarl]

Reading "Poor Floppy" (ORT, stage 2) with DS1 tonight. V shocked to find that when "poor Floppy" got taken to the vet, Rolf Harris was there in the consulting room (as in Animal Hospital.) Have I just got an over active imagination??

Check the publication date. It's probably pretty old.

It's just a random beardy man.

Was Floppy ok in the end? Poor Floppy.

..hopefully!

I doubt it was published after his trial. And that kids wouldn't realise.

DD hasn't had that one !

Hmm. Those books are full of funny little in jokes for the adults and stuff like that so it might be RH, but then again it might not. As kids of that reading level are unlikely to 'get' it, I'd not worry too much.

This is really old. I actually read it myself when I was at school. Did the whole biff chip kipper Wilma and will saga in the mid 90's!

These books are very old.

We found Princess Diana in one the other day and the story was that she was part of a waxwork display of the royal family and her head rolled off. I can't imagine that would be written now.

It is meant to be Rolf. We had him pop up as an art teacher coming into the school in the book a couple of weeks ago. They're ancient books. The dc have no idea. You are not seeing things.

2003. I reckon Animal Hospital was still on then.

What would a random beardy old man be doing in the consulting room, in a whit coat, in addition to the vet, if not filming AH?

I thought that the beardy man who pops up in the books was the author?

thats another beardy man who's usually in the background as a caretaker/builder etc he's more gingery IIRC

as an aside, does anyone know why these books are littered with little pics of discarded spectacles everywhere??

Perhaps Roderick rather than Rolf then meglet. An unfortunate resemblance though.

and yes the books are ancient but still widely used

there's one called The Camcorder, it's a massive thing!! LOL

If that's Rolf Harris they need to get a new illustrator.

Oh yes, i need to know that too, and why the bones?

Am sure there is one with a poster of George Michael in (think around Careless Whisper time) - no idea which one it is though.

I used to chuckle at the one where they were in the park and Mum was in the background and the pictures showed her having trodden in dog poo and scraping it off with a stick!

Also, why is there a snellans chart in the background? Dogs can't speak human.

Can they?

Good question WestEast. I think its a pretty good resemblance to Rolf though. Complete with slightly unpleasant, beady glint in his eye.

Jeremy Beadle is in one of the books - can't remember which one.

Yes I snurked at the dog poo one too. And yes, why the eye test chart in the bloomin vets??

Roderick hunt is such an unfortunate name too - I do a little internal cringe every time dc or I read it out loud at the start of a book - I have to try to enunciate very clearly with a nice long gap between first and last name!