A Teddy Bear Is Your Childhood Wrapped

We Shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And The Threads Of Our Experience Became So Interwoven That We Are Linked. I Can Never Be Utterly Lonely, Knowing You Share The Planet.

The Work Of A Garden Bears Visible Fruits-in A World Where Most Of Our Labours Seem Suspiciously Meaningless.

A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

Many A Cat Can Only Be Lured In By Switching Off All The Lights And Keeping Very Still. Until The Indignant Cry Of A Cat-locked-out Comes At The Door.

Grandad Has A Long And Earnest Conversation With His Grandchild. He Says, You Are Noisy And Wiggly And Will Be Sent Back If You Don't Pull Herself Together....the Baby Smiles Complacently. She Has Him Exactly Where She Wants Him.