Welcoming the Russian visitor

It is heartening to know that Mrs Trellis never misses a trick.
Dear Gordon Brown, she writes, I know you have your problems, dear, but with your wrecked face, it's not surprising. Do try to cheer up! After all you are a socialist, aren't you?
Anyway, thank you for alerting me to the Siberian in our midst. We get so few foreigners in LlanfairPG (apart from the English) that it will be a change to host a Russian with snow on its boots, etc. Do you know what it eats?
Also, I hope it will make friends with my budgerigar, Myfanwy. Fortunately she only swears in Welsh (having spent too long with my late husband in his workshop, where he tried but failed at many a DIY project, bless him. Even hammers were machines beyond his capability).
Now, listen to the advice of an older woman: ignore your critics and carry on with governing, or whatever it is you people do before you retire on enormous pensions, etc. It's not your fault you have less charisma than a stick insect, you just have to make the best of the gifts that the Good Lord gave you, few as they may be in your case.