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

[crispface]

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?

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Great! So glad Cloudbase came up trumps! Nice to see a happy ending! XXX

I'm glad yours got rescued bumbley - bloody dogs! (I love 'em, but they have no sense of propriety)

Eighties sometimes it's a complete misnomer that the youngest child is spoilt - I was the youngest of 5 and loved and cared for etc. but mostly just a bit of a nuisance, with everything else going on: I can't really remember being cossetted or played with. I have never seen a photo of myself as a baby, and only one or two of me as a small child...

Not bitter or anything apart from all the bitterness

A happy ending, yay!

Yaaaaaaaay!

Scarlett - how awful I can't understand people who don't comprehend the importance of a favourite toy.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I couldn't wait to get home to check this thread so I am now sat on a freezing bench near school sobbing. I cannot believe we have found one! Cloudbase, you are so kind to do this for us. I promise we will find a way to show your daughter how grateful we all are. She deserves to know what a lovely thing she is doing and something special will wing it's way in the post to her soon. You have all been so kind and the way everyone took my silly plight on board has really touched my heart. Crispface, we would not have found him without you starting this thread and the fact you did this for a totally unknown CheeseandBunion is amazing. You deserve a big bunch of mumsnet .

I will update after the Xmas day reunion I promise. He will be the star of the day I know. I'm planning to tell him that Father Christmas brought him back home just like he did with 'Stick Man' (his favourite book), but one day I will show him this thread so he knows the incredible kindness you can find from total strangers. I know not everyone on here understood why I wanted to do this but genuinely it was never about 'needing' this monkey but rather about 'wanting' to do something that would make 2 people I love very much incredibly happy.

Cloudbase, I will pm you properly as soon as I get home after lunch. Hope that's ok.

HOORAY AND THANK YOU EVERYONE SO VERY, VERY MUCH! x

Great thread. Well done OP and fantastic result for you and your little boy cheese.

Ignore the sour grapers, and for shame on them.

OH THIS IS SO LOVELY

Right. Now you've got me started with your last post, cheese

Beautifully written by the way.

Awwwww, I'm all weepy now.

Hooray for cloudbase and the Prodigal Monkey!

MN just blows me away sometimes. yay for stripey bear!

Bloody pregnancy hormones, I've just sobbed for 5 minutes. How lovely

I am in complete floods of tears.

cloudbase and cheese.

Yay! I'm ridiculously pleased about a boy and a monkey.

I'm SO so pleased that a new Stripes has been found - I've read the whole thread avidly this morning hoping for a happy ending, and shed many a tear on the way (it was the story of your wedding day that set me off Cheese). It's made my day that lovely people can pull together and make a Grandad and Grandson's Christmas. Well Done Mumsnet!!

Oh yay! Awesome thread, so glad Monkey has been 'found' hurrah for crispface, cheeseandbunion and cloudbase!

Haunted - I feel sorry for your children because you sound like my mum :(

Oh happy days. Shedding a few tears here. I will be thinking of the wee boy on Christmas morning and hoping for photos.

Well done Cloudbase.

What a wonderful story. Ignore the grumps. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what you did,or with having attachments to sentimental toys/objects. I'm thrilled that you found one,thanks to Cloud and Crisp.

Crying lots here.

Thats me off sobbing too. What a fab place this can be. Well done all.

What a lovely ending and what a magical Christmas your son will have to be reunited with his lost Monkey.

Ignore the grumpy sods who have no Christmas spirit.

Fantastic news! Cant wait for the post christmas update!

I've got something in my eye too.

Ooh and let us know Grandads reaction too.

That's made my morning