Chuffy said:
Perhaps we could all help?
Who's next for a suck on Arch's lolly?
I say....!
Got there in the end - the middle was a bit of a let down, not quite as toffeeish as I hoped. But not awful, like most other American confectionery...
Rikki, I wish I had asked now, it wasn't so much the list of what he was buying as the fact that it clashed so much with his all black attire and skull finger rings and such like.
I'm feeling a bit bogged down about the PhD at the moment, that and life generally. But when I spoke to my sister the other day, she told me that
the book I bought Oli for Christmas had been chosen, by Oli, to be looked at three times that day, and whenever the sister in the book shouts at her brother Albie, "Allllllllllllllllllllllbbiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!", Oliver says "Allbieeeeeeee" too! Just now, that thought is rather keeping me going.
(I picked the book up in a cheapo bookshop, I think it was even before Oli was born - I liked it because when Albie is riding his bike, the drawing of a bike is spot on - and many illustrators just don't get bikes quite right... )
