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They also have several things in common, however – the vague mention of the kids' school calendar, and an ending about Christmastime, yet nobody aging ageing whatsoever. They show an absurdist's eye for what is unusual and silly about the English way of life, never more so than with old blokes on a park bench, or in a story describing a rugby match. They also, bar perhaps the tale '… Strikes a Bargain', have a perfectly high quality level, showing that Bond, while he may have rustled up thirteen whole books of the Bear by now, knew what he was doing in maintaining a standard. By this time in the series he was flowing one chapter into the next, so that they were not always self-contained episodes, although no book became a full novel, and it's surprising considering the original collection how little we have here of the Browns, especially the children. But that only gives us more Paddington, which is ''very good value indeed'', to quote one of PB's concerns, and an exceedingly good thing.