Paralympics

Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!

A very charming nursery rhyme that we all know (except it stops being charming after being repeated for the thousandth time, but that’s a story for another day!)

So you can imagine the tragedy, the horror, when an accidental trip causes a fall which breaks the gingerbread man’s arm clean off… Whereas Daniel was almost inconsolable, I could not help thinking back to the scene in Shrek where the gingerbread man gets tortured – “no, not the buttons…!”

The solution to the tragedy came from a charming and unexpected source: “You know what, mommy? Now he can compete in the Paralympics…”

Kids. They say the darndest things.


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