Oh no! Mr. E has lost his blanket!

Go on, so who’s your favourite? Mine’s Macca Pacca. Vic prefers Upsy Daisy.

I’m torn between Macca Pacca and Iggle Piggle. The former’s funnier, but the latter’s a much more sympathetic character (I can’t believe I’m writing this, heh). Sophie loves Upsy Daisy, but then she’s just a child and doesn’t know any better.

You’re both mental.

On another weird thing - the iPhone guessed moomin as the spam word.

I take it the anti-spam thing is still working then?

I think so. My work PC guesses them right on autocorrect now too. :-)

If you want to go reading far too much into it, Macca Pacca’s actually kind of fascistic. He turns up outside your house and blows his trumpet to let you know that it is now your official time to get your face washed. And if you don’t get out there immediately and let him wash your face, he blows the trumpet again. And again. He gets pretty pushy about it. It’s rather totalitarian. You also get the feeling that the other characters live in dread of accidentally disturbing one of his piles of stones. You or I would probably think something along the lines of “Fuck it; they’re just stones.” But not they: they spend the whole show trying to put them back just as they were, and never quite getting it. The poor things must be terrified. I mean, this is a guy who sleeps with a rock. For comfort. If he lived in your street, you’d be, if not scared of him, at least very wary.

Have you seen an episode with a Ninky-Nonk ride yet? It’s class.

We got a little Macca Pacca doll for Daisy, and she recognised him instantly. Which is one of those things that shouldn’t be all that impressive but just makes your day when you’re a parent.

Yes, I think you may be reading too much into it.