So not a jolly spring for some creatures.
On the television news, there has been generous and sympathetic coverage, with American reporters in London portraying the party at Buckingham Palace as a jolly event and highlighting Prince Charles's speech.
And why doesn't he just follow the example of either our very own Clem Attlee in the 1940s and 1950s, or Dutch premier Wim Kok now, and spend a jolly couple of weeks driving around the West Country staying in some nice B&Bs?
Thanks to the efforts of local supplier Jolly Good Beer you see New Zealand beers more often than you expect to in Cambridge.
For the early part of Pink Floyd's career, Thorgerson and Powell – who traded as Hipgnosis – were theoretically answerable to an EMI staff member called Ron Dunton: as Powell later recalled, "this big, jolly fat man who was in charge of the album cover department".
Our art school in the early 60s was a jolly establishment, with classrooms, studios, canteen, and Sid's cafe round the corner for tea, toast and jam.
'In many ways the past and tradition is the identification of the nation... if you begin to undermine that, you can end up by not really understanding who you are as a people.' Although he is the one who plays jolly folk songs on his guitar at Tory party bonding sessions, he doesn't seem entirely at home in the brash world of the new managerial Conservative Party.
If, however, you don't have a Sky subscription, or were hoping that Sky might instead invest more in British TV, things look altogether less jolly.
The role of leading the TUC then fell to Willis – a jolly, humorous man.
At the moment, his feed is a jolly collection of babies doing the Lightning Bolt and him hugging Jason Statham (his hero, apparently).
