This is my newspaper column, in print today in the Cambs Times and Wisbech Standard:

With every baby there seems to get to a stack of soft toys and my boys have been not in any degree exception. However, amongst the piles of stuffing and fur, in that place is always a favourite!

My eldest took a beam to ‘Edwin’ who used to hold a big yellow star in his hands that played ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. The star was misplaced many years ago but Edwin survived and was promptly gifted to my youngest, Harry, from his big Brother the day he was born.

Harry’s favourite is ’Screwballs’ a rough coated dog that flops encompassing his bedroom waiting patiently for that bedtime hug.

I can’t remember any of my gently toys from childhood, let alone my favourite, memories like these are so easily gone from one’s mind. Hopefully my sketchbooks have a mind provide answers for my boys when they too realise that time has stolen some precious moments from their minds.

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