"The [expedition] is not a jolly tourist trip as some have claimed," he added, explaining that the trip had been struck by bad luck as opposed to human error.
The AAE is not a jolly tourist trip as some have claimed, nor is it a re-enactment.
A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
The Fiver discovered that at a young age when an attempt to patch things up with a potential future Mrs Fiver by taking her for a jolly old trip to the seaside ended in a badly played game of Hook-a-Duck, a flurry of candy floss and the police called out to Peter Pan's Adventure Island.
So no lastminute games on the DS, PSP or iPhone for transatlantic flyers, and jolly dull trips for anyonegoing state to state.
Still, as even the most melodramatically self-pitying author would concede, there are occasional jollies: British Council trips, invitations to literary festivals, an appearance on the shortlist for a prize.
The young Mozart wrote his first letter to his mother on Dec. 14: "I feel so jolly on this trip because it's so cozy in our carriage, and because our coachman... drives as fast as he can".
However, the newspaper reported that Cameron's then superior at Conservative Research Department called the trip "jolly", saying that "it was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job.
Community work, Sri Lanka Games, songs, drama and dancing... just a typical Christmas then, except instead of grandma and your neighbourhood choristers joining in the jolly fray, on this trip your teammates and singers will be the underprivileged kids living in orphanages or children's homes around Colombo or in the hill country near Kurunegala.
Oh, and let's not forget that trip to jolly England, where we rented a restored mill house in the countryside and it rained every single day we were there -- so much rain that we finally bought the kids Wellingtons and hiked in it anyway, for fear that otherwise we'd die of cabin fever.
