Dodo notes it will carry them all with it wherever it goes.
Like the name "Dodo"--it reminds me of John Mortimer's hilarious books, "Rumpole of the Bailey" series, where Rumphole's wife's old friend from school, Dodo MacIntosh, is always coming to visit at inconvenient ( for Rumpole) times...
Dodo's "cheesy bits" are her best culinary accomplishment...
Here is a little more about Rumpole, if you had forgotten (or never knew)
While certain biographical details are slightly different in the original television series and the subsequent book series, Horace Rumpole has a number of definite character traits that are constant. First and foremost, Rumpole loves the courtroom. Despite attempts by his friends and family to get him to move on to a more respectable position for his age, such as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or a Circuit Judge (referred to as Queer Customers and Circus Judges by Rumpole), he only enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients (who are often legal aid cases) at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court: "the honour of being an Old Bailey Hack," as he describes his work. A devotee of Arthur Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, he often quotes Wordsworth (and other poets less frequently, e.g. Shakespeare). He secretly calls his wife Hilda "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the fearsome queen in the adventure novel She by H. Rider Haggard.[1]
John Mortimer has left us, alas, and there will be no more Rumpole books ( some of the last ones, like "Rumpole and the Primrose Path," were among the best he ever wrote).
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