M&D - Chapter 19 - Parliament street, p. 197

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Now, what was Mr. Hailsone’s Leprechaun-like creature doing on Parliament street, hmmm?

He looked very fancy: red damask, gold embellishments, and a fashionable and inscribed squat Obelisk hat. A many colored twinkling about him, gilded.

And what's a Stroud Macaroni?

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First of all, Parliament street. 
Parliament street is a road in the City of Westminster (Whitehall), central London. 
City of Westminster is, strangely, a City within the City and the epicenter of Her majesty’s Government - which is to say Britain's legal centre. Whitehall is used as a metonym for the area, as well as for overall British governmental administration, as you know. Whitehall road is a road within the City of Westminster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall 

Downing street is, of course, just off Parliament street.

Excuse me while I have a quick interlude on The City of London:
Whitehall is right next to The City of London, another City within the City, and is known as Britain’s financial centre. The City of London by the way, is ancient London (Londinium), an area of great interest, if you’re so inclined. It has it own flag (Cross of St. George) separate from The Union Jack, and it’s own Coat of arms (from 1319), so who knows what’s going on with that, or what the implications are? (From a TP perspective it’s sort of having They written all over it though?)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London)

(from wiki): The local authority <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_England> for the City, namely the City of London Corporation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation>, is unique in the UK and has some unusual responsibilities for a local council, such as being the police authority. It is also unusual in having responsibilities and ownerships beyond its boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London>, an office separate from (and much older than) the Mayor of London <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_London>. The current Lord Mayor is Alan Yarrow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Yarrow>.

So here you have these two Cities within the City right next to each other. One the legal centre, the other the financial centre. 

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So the little creature is wearing an inscribed obeliks hat. 

That’s funny because in The City of Westminster (Whitehall) stands the obelisk 'Cleopatra’s Needle' inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs!

Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle

Wiki says "It was presented to the United Kingdom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom> in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan", and that: "On erection of the obelisk in 1878 a time capsule <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_capsule> was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, it contained : A set of 12 photographs of the best looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in erection, a 3' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the strange tale of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum>, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_3:16> in 215 languages,[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle#cite_note-6> a copy of Whitaker's Almanack <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitaker%27s_Almanack>, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers."
How strange.

There is a matching obelisk in New York (and a third in Paris). Several others scattered about as well, like Washington. There are a number of theories about these obelisks, other than what you find on wiki, like connections to lay lines, direction of energy and the etcetera.

There is definitely a link to Time, though, don’t you think?

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Now the whole Leprechaun-thing. 
Traditionally an Irish folklore fairy-figure, he has traveled a long way down to London, for sure. 
He is usually depicted as a little old man, wearing coat and hat. A solitary figure he partakes in mischief, and of course, have a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. (Hence the many-colored twinkling about his person).

If captured, the leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes, in exchange for their freedom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun

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To conclude: Had the leprechaun been captured? By Them? 
Did he grant them their three wishes? And what were they? 
Well, apart from the obvious one of world domination, of course…

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Oh, and about the Stroud Macaroni…
Stroud is an area not far from Glouchester I know that much. Cheltenham/Gloucester/Stroud is a really nice bit of England, for being in the South..
A macaroni is a sort of dandy. 
Again with the wiki  where it says a macaroni is actually a precursor to the dandy! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)

Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour> had developed a taste for macaroni, a type of Italian food little known in England then, and so they were said to belong to the Macaroni Club. They would refer to anything that was fashionable, or à la mode, as "very maccaroni".




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