Me, obviously at the age of about 9 years old. Maybe 10. I'm not that sure, but I think I wrote this in Standard four.
Puzzle Shift, a bizarre creature I invented which is a monkey with a guitar for a tail. He is named for characters at the start of The Last Battle because you can't write a novel without literary allusions, doncha know?
Leo Lion was my best toy. I think I got him for a birthday, but I just loved him straight away. He's mostly bald now and his tail's falling off a little but I can never get rid of him, he's too important.
Wish Bear, my care bear and one of the few female soft toys I owned.
Wommy is a wombat toy my Mum brought me from Australia. He was awesome, but he never got a more original name than Wommy Batty. He was frequently a horse for our Barbies but also moonlighted as a priest for when my sister's doll got married and sometimes he would go on a rampage and destroy the Barbies. He was a complex character to say the least.
Snoopy is an important toy because he's the first one I saved up to pay for myself. He was a jointed soft toy and you could get outfits for him, I had the flying ace leather jacket outfit for him and he was awesome. He dated Wish Bear.
Roger Rabbit was my friend Anita's toy, which I was very jealous of because it was my favourite movie at the time.
Newspaper is a panda bear, probably also belonging to Anita although I don't really remember. His name is based on that funny joke, what's black and white and red all over...an embarrassed/sunburnt panda bear.
Doggie....who knows. Probably Anita's toy.
Then there's my sister and my friend Ruth, but they hardly seem important at all.
Posted by jenni at May 27, 2008 05:52 PM