An Aussie gift for the royal baby

The official name of this country is ”Commonwealth of Australia” and it is a monarchy. The Head of State is the British monarch and the prime minister is the political leader of the country. Needless to say, the Australians are eagerly looking forward to hearing the baby news of prince Will and his Kate and yesterday 15th of July was the announced due date of the royal offspring. A few months ago, Julia Gillard was the Australian prime minister and she decided that she was going to knit and stuff a kangaroo as official gift for the baby. When she was removed from her post and Kevin Rudd took over – called K-Rudd by the press – he decided that the kangaroo was being dumped for ”something more precious”. His spokeswoman said that ”it will be something Australian, precious and very special for both baby and mother”. Rumor has it the gift is very precious indeed: an opal-encrusted rattle. You know what a rattle is, the little toy the baby holds in the hand and shakes, it makes noise. Fisher Price has some soft ones in very nice colors and with a nice rattling sound. How exciting is it for a baby, albeit a royal one, to shake a silver rattle decorated with green opals? Babies like to put their rattles in the mouth. How will an opal-encrusted silver rattle fit in the baby’s mouth? How to avoid the opals scratching the baby’s gum? Why do K-Rudd and his henchmen sneer at the knitted stuffed kangaroo? I think it was a wonderful and very heartwarming initiative that the prime minister wanted to KNIT a toy for the future monarch of England. That is truly a gift from the heart! I can understand if people didn’t think it was enough with just a knitted kangaroo but I am sure there would have been other official gifts as well from the Commonwealth of Australia.

After a busy day governing Australia, Ms. Gillard used to wind down with knitting

My husband has given me some beautiful, valuable jewelry over the years but my most treasured jewelry are the necklaces and bracelets made from pasta and plastic beads by my daughters and I have worn these with pride. I have framed paintings they have given me and I always have some of their art work on the walls. Very precious and so very special to me.

As for the royal baby’s presents of England, I do hope that Julia Gillard will give her kangaroo anyway, although the Australian press think it’s unlikely that she will. I am sure Buckingham Palace has a fair number of bejeweled silver rattles already, passed on through generations of royal babies. What they probably do not already have is a kangaroo, knitted and stuffed by an Australian prime minister. That would be something very special for both baby and mother. 

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