Oh it was a LOVELY day! The sun was shining, the breeze was blowing, the air was thick with the scent of lilacs, and sunflowers shed their bright yellow pollen ALLLL over the passersby.

A young man was seated on a bench. "Good day Inspector!" he said brightly, seeing a familiar face in the crowd passing through the park.

"Good day Marius Pontmercy!" Javert replied, grinning his big happy grin. "What are you doing today?"

"Oh I'm just sitting here, doing nothing, waiting around to gawk at the pretty little girl who sits over there every day. Nothing much worth worrying about. You?"

"Oh, I've quit the police force! Everyone was too stuffy and mean there for me. I couldn't take it anymore!"

"Well gosh Inspector, guess I'd better just call you Javert from now on." Marius smiled.

"Oh no no dear boy! Call me Snookums. EVERYONE who knows me well does!"

"Oh but I thought no one knew you well!"

"Why you're absolutely right! So you would be the first then -- to call me Snookums that is. AND to know me really well. Yes, that too."

"Well I'm proud of it then, Snookums! Gosh, what a happy, jolly name Snookums is. Is it your own?"

"Whose else would it be?"

"Ha ha! You're so clever, Snookums! I know that we shall always be the best of friends!" Marius hugged Javert, and both of them felt really happy, friendly and good all over. Awwwww!

"So what would you like to do, Marius?--"

"Oh DO call me Slappy! I'd quite like it if you did!"

"All right!" Javert said. "Slappy it is then. What would you like to do today, Slappy? Or are you too busy gawking at little girls?"

"Oh no, I'm never too busy to spend a day with my chum Snookums!"

"Eoh jolly good!"

"Let us go fetch some ice cream!"

Slappy and Snookums began to titter. "Oh ice cream! Oh jolly, jolly good!" they exclaimed at once.

And so the two went skipping along down the path in the Luxembourg, off on a great adventure to roam about Paris in the sunshine, looking for ice cream. Let us hope that when they do find, it will not melt all over their pretty clothing. Oh how DISASTROUS 'twould be! They must certainly invest in a set of bibs! Or eat their ice cream in the shade! Or eat it in a cup with a spoon -- or should it melt, they should suck it up with a straw! Oh what a lovely bunch of options they have! WhatEVER will they choose to do? Tune in next time, to Happy, Pukey Drivel to find out!

WHAT will become of Slappy and Snookums?
Will they end up in a sticky mess?
Will they spoon their way out of trouble?
Will they have to ICE-CREAM for help?

Tune in next time! Same Happy, Pukey time; same Happy, Pukey channel!