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to think SOMEONE must be able to help a desperate child?

263 replies

crispface · 15/11/2011 20:01

am posting this on behalf of another mumsnetter whose son lost his favourite monkey over 2 years ago, and still cries for him.

The monkey has been discontinued by the white company, and no amount of desperate searches can help.

Now mumsnet is a big old world - can ANYONE help a poor little lad and make his christmas?

picture here

OP posts:
Thumbwitch · 16/11/2011 08:19

Oh Cloudbase!!!! that sounds exactly right, CheeseandBunion contact her immediately!! Grin

chocolateyclur · 16/11/2011 08:19

Fingers crossed - will be keeping an eye out round charity shops for you

Thumbwitch · 16/11/2011 08:22

Oh pants, now I'm sniffling and eye leaking, I'm so happy that a replacement has potentially been found - cloudbase, did you see the linked pic at the beginning of the thread? Just asking because you were asking what the monkey looked like - there's a photo.

CheeseAndBunion · 16/11/2011 08:24

Cloudbase!!!! That sounds just like him. There is a picture on the linked post at the top. Is that the same monkey? I can link the picture again if that helps. If it is him we would love to send you on one of our liked but not adored pristine teddies to say thank you to your DD, she sounds just lovely. We have just put some in a bag that my son knows are great toys that would make other children very happy but he doesn't need them. Dashing off to school but will pm you later of it's the same monkey. Can't believe he might have turned up! Thank you all SO much!

Cloudbase · 16/11/2011 08:32

It's The Same!!!!! Yay!

Cheese, he's yours, with my greatest pleasure! PM me when you get the chance and we can sort out getting him to you - wish I could see your littlies face when he sees him! (getting all teary myself now...) Smile Smile Smile

ElmoFan · 16/11/2011 08:41

Awww i just love a Happy ending Smile

Thumbwitch · 16/11/2011 08:43

Oh me too, Elmofan

YAAAYYYY!!

ElmoFan · 16/11/2011 08:44
EightiesChick · 16/11/2011 08:44

This is fantastic! Cheese, please post about the 'reunion' when Monkey arrives.

Selks · 16/11/2011 08:55

Ahhh, nice! Grin

ItWasABoojum · 16/11/2011 08:56

:) :) :)

Dalrymps · 16/11/2011 08:57

SmileGrinSmileGrin

sillysillymum · 16/11/2011 08:59

Yay!!! It's too early for such emotion! Was weepy when I read about you teddy on your wedding day, and now we have a replacement teddy! Hurrah!

WinterIsComing · 16/11/2011 09:02

How lovely Smile

savoycabbage · 16/11/2011 09:07

Grin I love it when a plan comes together.

TheScarlettPimpernel · 16/11/2011 09:09

Oh NO this is making me remember my Panda Sad Sad

My granddad bought it when I was born. He died when I was eight.

A year later my sister's 18 month old took a shine to Panda and wanted to take him home. I cried and cried but everyone told me I was being selfish and that of course the toddler sould have Panda and it wasn't fair that I should keep it.

Over the years I kept asking now and then where Panda was. In the end my sister said cheerily "Oh we gave it to the dog as a dog toy and it got so torn up we threw it away" Sad Sad Sad

I am 32 now and I still think about it and well up. I only ever had one granddad - the other died years before I was born - and Panda was my only gift from him, and no-one cared or understood how much he meant to me, just shouted at me that I was being selfish for wanting to keep him

TheScarlettPimpernel · 16/11/2011 09:10

Oh and I missed a page! YAY for Monkey!

I'm now HOWLING. Bloody PMT Blush

maxybrown · 16/11/2011 09:16

HOORAY!!!!!! Grin

some weird posts here though, Hmm Ignore it cheese, you have certainly not come across like that at all.

Cheese, had he not turned up I could have posted on the boards for you as I have already paid my subscription!!

Oh I am so pleased, please tell me he will be wrapped up for Christmas Day? And you must let us all know how he reacts. Smile (and your Dad!)

Oh scarlett Sad

Thumbwitch · 16/11/2011 09:18

Oh ScarlettP, that is so sad. What an unfeeling cow your sister was, so sorry :(.

CheeseandBunions, please please post a pic of the reunion, if you don't mind sharing your DS's face on here - I bet he'll be so thrilled! And your Dad too.

bumbleymummy · 16/11/2011 09:18

Yay! I love happy endings! :) Hurray for mumsnet!

Robotindisguise · 16/11/2011 09:22

Oh how lovely!
Scarlett - how awful Sad

I still feel sad when I think of poor old Sally, nicked within minutes when I left her at a campsite in France. Still, I don't suppose she speaks a word of English these days.

TheScarlettPimpernel · 16/11/2011 09:32

It is awful isn't it?

All these years my sister/parents have been so dismissive and I now I feel validated! (mine was a large and distinctly uncuddly family Grin )

I demand pictures of Monkey being reunited with his best friend. Only this can soothe my painz.

bumbleymummy · 16/11/2011 09:38

So sad Scarlett :( my cousin gave my beloved teddy to his dog when we were visiting. He laughed while the dog savaged it and I screamed my head off! Luckily we were able to rescue him and patch him up and I still have him.

EightiesChick · 16/11/2011 09:39

Scarlett Your family have been really mean to you over this. Enjoy the thought of another child getting their toy back.

dearprudence · 16/11/2011 09:40

I'm so pleased. Grin I would also love an update.

And unlike some others, I did read the thread and I know that the thread title and OP were not from the mother whose child lost the monkey, but from a kindly friend. So criticising the mother's parenting or child on the basis of this is way out of order.