Out of all of Harry’s new toys we have struggled to give this one a name.
Most of his toys have names, this is not because we’re crazy (although that’s debatable) but because it just makes our lives simpler. We always try to rotate Harry’s toys so that he doesn’t get bored with them, so a typical conversation here at Number 58 will go along the lines of ‘Which toy did Harry have yesterday?’ and the answer to that question could be Spike, Ducky, Sammy or Nelly etc. If they didn’t have names then the answer would probably go ‘Oh, you know. The round one, the thing with the different coloured furry spikes on it.’ Answering ‘Spike’ is just so much easier.
The other reason for all the toys to have names is that we often play hide and seek with them. If Harry is looking particularly bored or wants to play at an inappropriate time, we’ll ask him to ‘Find Sammy’ or ‘Find Nelly’‘. This is a very useful game and can mean the difference between catching the end of a TV programme or not. Harry has brilliant timing and usually gets bored when there’s only 5 minutes or so left of the film we’ve been watching for the last 2 hours.
But this particular new addition has us totally dumbfounded. At first glance it looks like three runner beans just waiting to be picked,
then again, it could be almost half an octopus, and after a while it starts to look like a trio of Little Green Men from planet Mars. Has anyone got any ideas for a name for this thing?