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

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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

This needs to go in Classics.

Shame about the needless bitchy comments

But hurrah for cloudbase!

Wonderful isn't it? I am refusing the read the thread from last night.

I have a panda toy which was bought for me when I was adopted in the early seventies at the age of three months. The poor thing has had to "bear" my beginners sewing and repair jobs (think mad-surgeon from horror films) and DD's smearing him with lipstick but he is the ONE thing that I have from childhood which has always stayed with me in forty years.

My DD has always been a bit resentful of tatty old panda occupying space on top of her wardrobe but this Christmas she has enlisted the help of my sister to buy him an entire new outfit from Build a Bear. For me. That's really sweet I think.

Lockets - you need hope no longer - cloudbase, a wonderful mumsnetter, has one of these monkeys that her little one doesn't play with, and he is going to be on his way to the OP very, very soon.

Winter - I have never had to mend any of either my or the dses childhood bears, but I have repaired two of the dog's cuddly toys. She likes to take out their kapok, and - well, I can't go into any details here, for fear of traumatising the mumsnetters and their cuddly friends who are reading this thread - but suffice it to say, some very serious repairs have been neccessary, and lets just say I will never have a career as a plastic surgeon. Frankensheep and Frankenpuppy are still much loved, but the nicknames tell you a lot about their appearance.

This is a wonderful story. So happy for your little boy - how lovely! His face will be a picture. I lost my childhood bear when I was four and I cried about it regularly for years afterwards. I still feel a little teary about him, actually. So glad your story has a happy ending.

Yay!!!! :) :)
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Yay!! Just catching up with this thread, some heartless comments but otherwise fab!

Have had a crappy day & this has cheered me up

good news.

It's awfully dusty around here, I got something in me eye.

I'm so, so happy for everyone. Well done you Cloudbase .

I would save it for Christmas. Santa bringing it like in Stick Man is too sweet! Unless he gets upset before then then maybe I suppose he could bring it early?

oh, miguel Tuna, That's it! Been trying to think about a previous thread, I loved that thread - is it in classics?

Hurrah for MN!

That is so wonderful, well done cloudbase, you are a lovely person with a very lovely daughter.

CheeseAndBunion, What a lovely mum you have!

The post on Wed 16-Nov-11 03:55:0 is probably one of the nastiest things I have read on MN. I will presume the poster has a very difficult life.

What a lovely ending to the thread, though. Would be cool to video the child's reaction when monkey returns.

I also have that monkey I think and am willing to pass him on if need be to make a wee boy happy. Is he called 'stripy monkey' from WC Spring 2008? I am sure mine is the same. Like CB, PM if you want to get in touch about Mr Monkey. Hope you get one!

Sorry I was abit late there, I got carried away when I realised I had one. Glad you have one, hope your little boy has a wonderful surprise!

i love a happy ending Cloudbase you are a star

Hope this 4 year old has a fantastic christmas

I'm pretty sure Hengshanroad lives in China - and probably has seen deprivation the likes of which we never will - but that doesn't excuse the unpleasantness to C&B's son :(

What a lovely thread. This is reminiscent of the Shirley Hughes story "Dogger". I always had tears in my eyes when I read it to my DC and my DN.

It is moving that it struck a chord with so many of us.

It turned out well in the end MissMap-there were some miserable people at the start who wouldn't have understood 'Dogger' at all. They said words to the effect of 'I wouldn't have it-tell them to get over it'! Or a total lack of understanding as in 'buy a new toy-why are they moaning'!

I vote this goes into "Classics".

Incidentally, how does one get there?

I don't agree with kids getting emotionally attached to objects

Glad you are not my mother then!

Some parents are weird and have to have control. Why shouldn't a DC be free to get attached to something? DS was attached to his blanket-it had a personality and he did grow out of it!! It didn't stop him being attached to people!