Paddington doesn’t intentionally turn his friend’s wedding into an uproar by getting the wedding ring stuck on his paw. Nor does he mean Mr Curry to slip on his marmalade sandwich in the middle of an important golf tournament. And when Paddington goes out to sing Christmas carols, he doesn’t mean to end up waiting on tables in a strange house or, come to that, serving baked elastic in mistake for ’Baked Alaska’. But these sorts of things just happen to a bear like Paddington.