For her own obscure reasons, the Princess tossed a pen on top of the bookshelf on the landing and asked me to get it down. Standing on top of a chair, I groped blindly behind the books stacked on the top and felt something soft and extremely dusty. He’s back, the one and only, the original transitional object.
wow! i have read enough of your archives to know that must have caused some excitement! how did she react? do you think she tossed it up there in the first place!? we are planning a move in a few months (if we can sell our house without killing our realtor) and i am hoping my metal measuring spoons turn up, as well as my husband’s watch. doubtful though.
Wonderful! Just when Ireland needed hope. What did she say?
I hope you gave OTO a good vacuuming and dust thumping. A spray of fabric freshener might not hurt either. I put my bear (“the old beast”) on the back bumper of the neighbor’s car once, and oh, the hue and cry! He drove to the store and back with it lodged there, and found it the next day when he went to open the boot. I was two, and unconsolable until “the old beast” made his miraculous return. I’m glad the OTO has turned up.
Brilliant. Though I’m sure he’s in for a telling off from his mistress.
Diana, I am touched that you have been reading through the archives. I think that I was more moved than she was – 7 year olds are unsentimental.
Madrilena – He’s filthy, you put him in the laundry basket.
WOL, he has been put through the wash and survived to tell the tale. He is now restored to his mistress. Quite exciting about your bear’s trip to the supermarket – where is he now?
Pog, I feel that you have fully grasped the character of my first born. Correct.