After an absence of near two years, Polly and her friends are back. Maybe they will make it to the end of the series.
The trolls, mostly off-screen to the left, have on this occasion been rather put in the shade by the zombies constructed for Halloween, two and a half of which are visible right. The ladies have been building a palace, possibly something to do with Barbies, visible in pink behind Polly. While Polly and her friends have been building a troll house, also off-screen to the left. In tasteful red, green, yellow and blue. Proper Duplo colours.
PS: in the margins I learned that 'Donnybrook' as well as being a Dublin suburb just in from Sandymount (which last features no less that twice in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'), was once licensed by King John to hold a annual fair. Along the way the word became slang in the Anglophone colonies - that is to say the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - for a public brawl or uproar. The New York Times, where I first came across the usage, offers the snap above. Nothing in the OED, but Webster's gives the word half a column inch between 'donnot' and 'donor'.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/11/series-4-episode-i.html.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook,_Dublin.
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