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WWYD? The Saga of the Family Tuna

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 27/09/2011 19:43

Bit longwinded but anyone who bears with me can have Wine and Thanks
DD has a toy caterpillar named Sydney Tuna, she liberated him from a car boot sale when she was just gone 2 and has adored and worshipped him ever since.
Last Christmas Santa brought his mummy, Mrs. Mabel Tuna, to live with us. She had missed Sydney since he went to seek his fortune, so had written to Santa to ask him to find Sydney, and Santa gave her a lift to our house on his sleigh. Cue rejoicing and carolling and so on....
DD now informs me that this Christmas, Mrs T and Sydney are writing jointly to Santa to find Mr. Tuna, who rejoices in the name Miguel apparently, and is in the army, fighting for the peaceloving resistance caterpillars who want to stop the slaughter between the marmite and the maple syrup factions I kid you not AND I kept a straight face wile DD told me all this
So... and if you're still with me, a thousand thanks... I can lay my hands on a caterpillar identical to Mrs. Tuna, but how can I make him look like he's been liberated from the army/prisoner of war camp/somewhere else suitable to have kept him away for a long time? I thought about him having been kidnapped by Pirates to explain where he's been all these years, and that was when DD came out with the stuff about the army... any suggestions? DD is 9 and I think this could be the last year for Santa for her, we've had some pointed questions that I have so far lied my way out of managed by the skin of my teeth, so I want to do Mr. Tuna's homecoming right...

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NormanTheForeman · 30/09/2011 12:27

Ooh, good, MN Towers have decided to put this in Classics!

Am loving the Free Miguel FB page......

stealthsquiggle · 30/09/2011 12:22

Thanks for the job offer, Pidj - unfortunately I have a paid one which I am not doing very well at the moment so I think I had better stick to liking and re-tweeting Grin

purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 12:14

with his cousins when they came to visit?

OTheHugeWerewolef · 30/09/2011 12:09

If you put this on a green background it would make a ridiculously cute baby Sydney Grin

Or perhaps Sydney's baby sister?

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 30/09/2011 12:05

ooo Wolef you are clever Grin

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 30/09/2011 12:04

I don't have an iphone - I think there are some nifty online photo editing things about though - I shall get the pics first could be monday when they're all at school and I have plenty of time to do it right and then see what I can find... oddly, thinking about wedding pics has made me notice that my roses are gone There's been a bunch of yellow silk roses in "nanna's vase" on the window ledge since DD was born, and they are not there now.... I have no IDEA when they vanished though, they were just always there, and now they aren't and I don't know where they went... it's a mystery!
I shall trot over the road to my lovely neighbour when I do the pics, and ask her if she can spare a few of her lovely flowers to be Mrs Ts bouquet Grin everything is starting to die back now so I should be able to have a few blooms...

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OTheHugeWerewolef · 30/09/2011 12:00

Sydney as a newborn

mamaGool · 30/09/2011 11:46

This just gets better & better. Can't wait for wedding pics!

MmeLindor. · 30/09/2011 11:44

Could you put a baby bonnet on and big dummy in front of Sydney, to obscure him a bit. Fluffy blanket in front.

Do you have an iPhone? Take a pic with Hipstatic app (or whatever it is called) so it looks old

purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 11:42

We're in Classics!!

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 30/09/2011 11:39

I don't think baby pics would work :( Sydney Tuna is as far as we've ever been able to discover unique and he now looks a fair bit more tatty well loved and older than he did when he arrived, so I don't think they'd work. Possibly some "soap opera baby" type ones of a bonnet viewed peeking out of a blanket or something, but not actual ones of Sydney. We're not really a dolly house, we hardly have any and the ones we have tend to be sadly neglected naked and with only half a tuft of hair, or missing limbs and such - and we haven't got a pram anymore. I can see me ending up roping in half the school yard here for accessories! The problem is keeping it a secret from the DCs! practices furting furtively

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MmeLindor. · 30/09/2011 11:38

OMG

Miguel has managed to evade the guards and has access to an iPhone.

He is posting on Twitter

Please, MN. Help us get the word out.

#freemigueltuna

NormanTheForeman · 30/09/2011 11:19

Wedding photos sound excellent! Smile

purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 11:16

Yes!!!! Any possibility of some baby pics of Sydney, too? Possibly with a dummy and a bonnet in the doll's pram?

MmeLindor. · 30/09/2011 11:11

yes, yes to the idea of the wedding photos.

You will need to do that before roughing him up doing the army stuff.

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 30/09/2011 11:08

Yes please MmeL Grin we must move with the times and employ every means to get Miguel home safely!

I just had a brilliant idea, but cannot reach Mrs. Tuna she is stuffed down the back of DDs high sleeper and no matter what I do I cannot reach but later, on or next week when DCs are all at school when DH has been made to help me to make up for What He Did Yesterday I thought I could do wedding pictures from the days when Mabel and Miguel were happy together, before he went to war. for the FB album Or is that too sad and pathetic much?

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purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 11:06

Cool. I'll do farcebook, you do twit stuff! Will you blog it too, Mme, or should Miguel have his own? Stealthy, d'ya want a job?!

Pombear, you're an admin to the fb page so add stuff at your leisure Grin

MmeLindor. · 30/09/2011 11:02

Shall I do the twitter bit for you? I can be your Twitter campaign manager.

stealthsquiggle · 30/09/2011 11:02

Go on then MmeL - if you do the creative tweet writing I will re-tweet and incur the disbelieving scorn of all my work related tweeps

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn · 30/09/2011 10:58

I PMed you pidj
ooooo Mme Miguel is the first member of our family to have a tweet- we've never done twitter because the only time we went to look it seemed very scary and complicated and we didn't understand so we sidled away quietly before anyone noticed us and never went back

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purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 10:27

I'm not a twit, Mme, feel free to handle that side of things Grin

MmeLindor. · 30/09/2011 10:22

OMG You are all NUTS

But brilliant.

I love this thread.

I do think that you need to have some kind of a campaign going on. I have "liked" the FB page. Are you on Twitter?

@freemigueltuna and #freemigueltuna

CristinadellaPizza · 30/09/2011 10:01

You know you need to print this thread off and give it to your DD when she's older PomBear :o

purplepidjinawoollytangle · 30/09/2011 09:46

www.facebook.com/free.miguel.tuna

Pombear, let me have your fb id/add me as a friend and I'll make you an administrator Grin

stealthsquiggle · 30/09/2011 09:32

Oh Sydney is so cute - no wonder DD needed to adopt him.

DS went through a phase of Father Christmas doubt a couple of years ago - he decided to hide a note somewhere where "only Father Christmas will find it" - fortunately FC did find it, and left him a mammoth to look after. The following Christmas said mammoth (Rufus) had a panic attack about FC coming to pick him up and left a note asking if he could please stay with DS. FC agreed, and left Rufus a special ribbon which Rufus promised to treasure for ever and has since lost. DS is almost 9 now and still chooses to believe (fortunately he has almost 5yo DD as an excuse Grin)