By Robin Cooper
For numerous years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department shops, inns, institutions, fan golf equipment and a undeniable kid's e-book writer along with his letters. From Prince Charles to the Peanut Council, Harrods to the British Halibut organization - nobody is secure. So who's Robin Cooper? Architect, thimble clothier, trampoline tester and wasp professional, Robin Cooper is all of these items - it simply relies on the individual he is writing to...
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Each episode features Catty sewing or making an embroidery of an imaginary world. Catty tries to get Mrs Mallett to enter the mystical world with her, but sadly Mrs Mallett is infirm and has to stay at home. Catty embarks on a series of amazing journeys all on her own: Book One: Catty and Dr Finch: Catty knits a woollen world where speech is forbidden and children are forced to live in caves. The whole place is run by the evil Dr Finch. In the end Catty defeats Dr Finch by letting him suckle on her until he falls asleep.
Robin Cooper Brondesbury Villas LONDON 2nd July, 1999 Dear Mr. Cooper, Thank you for your letter of 1st July regarding the possibility of Madame Tussaud's producing a wax portrait of yourself. We do get a significant number of letters of this nature every year. Whilst I appreciate your generous offer to sit for a portrait unfortunately Madame Tussaud's only has a very limited number of portraits that can be added to the exhibition in any one year. We spend a considerable amount of time and effort selecting the personalities who will be approached, for example, this year we are including the Countess of Wessex, David Jason, Tim Henman and Billy Connolly.
I await your reply. Kindest regards, Robin Cooper Robin Cooper Brondesbury Villas London Chief Executive Dr Roger Sweeting FIFM RS/SG 7 September, 1999 Dear Mr Cooper Thank you for your most intriguing letter describing your strange-looking creature. We would be only too pleased to see photographs - perhaps we might be able to assist you in its identification. Yours sincerely Dr Roger Sweeting Robin Cooper Brondesbury Villas London Dr Roger Sweeting Chief Executive The Freshwater Biological Association The Ferry House Far Sawrey Ambleside Cumbria LA22 0LP 12th September 1999 Dear Dr Sweeting, Many thanks for your letter regarding my 'strange-looking creature' that has been lurking in and around my pond.
