Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Seaside Holiday

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BBC, Oct 1994: listen to Kathleen Hale speaking as a castaway on Desert Island Discs aged 96, following the publication of her book. (For those unfamiliar with this long-running programme's premise and format, see Wikipedia.) Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): His Silver Wedding (1944) - Also known as Orlando's Silver Wedding, this book tells the story of Orlando and Grace's marriage. Their trading decisions were key: at the end of the final quarter they swapped Mulberry for Aviva and Betfair for Tesco. In the final quarter, Aviva's share price increased by 17% (compared with a rise of only 6.6% for Mulberry during that time) and Tesco rose by 1.2% (far superior to a fall in the Betfair share price of 5.4%). Kathleen Hale was born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire and was brought up in a suburb of Manchester. Her childhood was far from idyllic: her father died when she was very young and she was forced to endure long periods of separation from her mother. This, along with the frustrations of an unexpressed artistic talent, produced a rebellious reaction in the young girl's naturally ebullient nature. However, her talent as an artist was recognised at school by a sympathetic headmistress at Manchester High School for Girls and she went on to attend art courses in Manchester and at the University College, Reading. So what chance do these budding young financial whizzkids think they have against the team of professionals?

I think Mulberry will be looking at using some of the money it has made to expand and perhaps target all those Russian and Chinese billionaires. Maybe its strategy will now be to get out of areas of recession and into the good areas."

In this enchanting tale, Orlando wants to take his wife, Grace, their children Pansy, Blanche and Tinkle to the seaside for a summer holiday. Unfortunately all the hotels and boarding houses are full so he looks as though he is going to have to abandon the idea. They point to recent positive indicators from the US, saying that an upturn in its economy is usually followed first, by the UK, and then, Europe. I still think they are excellent children's books, and Kathleen's own illustrations are superb. The year each title was first published will be found in the image captions. The stamp ( top right) was issued by Great Britain in 1994 as one of a set of 10 Greetings stamps depicting characters from well-known British children's stories.

She was constantly sketching the family cats, and their antics gave her ideas for further stories. The horse 'Vulcan' who appears in some was based on a huge Shire horse called 'Prince' that she had had to learn to manage when she was in the Land Army in 1918. Eventually there were 18 books in all, some produced by Country Life and some by other publishers; they have been reprinted numerous times. The last to appear was The Water Cats in 1972.In Paris, in the 1920s, she met Cedric Morris and Lett Haines. She was later a frequent visitor to their Benton End community in Essex, centre of the East Anglian school of painting, where art, gastronomy and horticulture mingled. She had a long liaison with the bisexual Haines, who called her "Moggy". He appears in Orlando's Silver Wedding (1944) as the cloth-capped cat napper whose feelings for the feline carry him away. I think we have a good chance as the people who do this for a living have a clouded judgment, whereas we are the market," said Year 13 student Lauren Tye. "We're the ones buying these things. We know what people want." Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the fictional eponymous hero of the series (of the same name) of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972, issued by various publishers including Country Life and Puffin Picture Books. The series involves a marmalade cat (most likely a ginger tabby) named Orlando, and his adventures with his family and wife named Grace. Guests must be 36 inches tall to ride with a guardian, or 48 inches tall to ride without a guardian

Orlando is, of course, a utopian cat who, disliking the world as he finds it, wants to change it. In Orlando Becomes A Doctor, there is a perfect picture of a hospital as it might be. He takes on a French chef to improve his patients' diet; he evolves the ideal cure for the rich, which is to give away half their money to the poor. When you look at him closely, he is terribly alternative. Kavanagh says: "I think we have to be slightly more risk averse to start with. But the nice thing is, we can adjust the portfolio after three months if things start to improve." Insley, Jill (17 December 2017). "Half a million reasons to write to Jill Insley". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 17 November 2019.Orlando - The hero of the series, he is a marmalade-coloured cat with eyes like two green gooseberries. He sometimes keeps his watch on his tail, and later on in the series he is friends with a living magic carpet named Fatima.

Images and content (whether original or used at Purr 'n' Fur with permission) may NOT be reproduced They have selected companies that are producing a good performance, but which have not yet been recognised by the market, in the hope of benefitting from capital appreciation – a rise in the share price. He is quite blasé about his chances of winning, claiming that his portfolio is purrfect. Orlando could just pull the (Persian) rug from under his rivals.Orlando, the beautiful marmalade cat with eyes like "twin green gooseberries", made his first picture book debut in 1938, to instant acclaim. His adventures grew into a series of eighteen books which, with their exciting, humorous stories and distinctive illustrations full of interesting detail and visual jokes, have become classics of children's literature. They are now reissued in editions that faithfully reproduce the elegant folio format of the originals, to delight a new generations of children and bring nostalgic pleasure to all Orlando's former admirers. OK, so teenager Salvatore Tona has not invested real money in Mulberry, but he is investing his group's hopes of success in the brand. Grace - The wife of Orlando, she and the kittens almost always accompany Orlando. She often wears large hats and skirts, and once wore a wedding-dress made of fish on their (Orlando's and Grace's) wedding day, and in Orlando's Home Life wore a fur coat in the pattern of a leopard's fur. She is a tabby cat, with a small, stubby nose like a ripe apricot. [3] She married Douglas McClean, a young doctor working in medical research. They settled in Hertfordshire where they could bring up their two young sons and entertain their friends. She created Orlando and his world to entertain her children at bedtime. Orlando The Marmalade Cat 'with eyes like twin gooseberries' was one of the classic children's book characters of the 1940s and 1950s. The stories are known for their quirky wit and extravagant illustrations. They combine adventure with friendship and family life. As the creator of Orlando, Kathleen was awarded the OBE in 1976. David Lewis (12 November 2012). Reading Contemporary Picturebooks: Picturing Text. Routledge. p.143. ISBN 978-1-135-12152-5.