Love this photo of my daughter Jess and feel, at the moment, as if I’m also doing my bit to preserve treasured toys.
Isn’t it great that you can still have dolls repaired? In South Sydney, the Chapman family have been bringing favorite toys back to life for 101 years. I love the idea of NOT being disposable… wish we’d all go back to favorites again.
My daughter’s favorite was a pink and white Panda made for me by a grateful patient when I was nursing in Harrogate General, way back in 1969. Only natural that I would pass it on to my beautiful daughter in 1976. Before I traveled to Ireland in 2002 I carefully packed it away with lots of stuffed toys in a storage box marked especially and guess what – that was the one that went missing. Wish we still had the panda because I know my little grandie Bella, would love it!
The whole subject reminded me of a very favorite poem by Pam Ayres –…
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