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Bye bye, Barack Obama – we will so miss you

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In kindergarten, after you learn the vowels – A E I O U – your next task, as a tot, is to scream ‘Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu’ as teacher Beatrice benevolently looks on. You know your toi is lost when they say that, today in nursery, they learned ‘Bae, babe, bibi, boo, bubu.’

What I’m getting at is this – today I wanted to talk about BI ( Beryl Itindi) but instead I’ll talk about BO (Barack Obama, though the White House dog is also called BO and, this week, no doubt bad tempered because they are leaving the WH, it nipped some woman who went to pet its head on her ear).

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