Today I was weak in the face of Bethany's new trick which basically involves toddling into the kitchen, pointing at the cupboard which she has quickly worked out contains her treats (biscuits, chocolate buttons, crisps etc) and crying. Not wanting to encourage her to eat junk I gave her a grape and when that did not satisfy her I put a few in a bowl for her. By the time she went to bed there was 3 left from the whole bunch. That's not including the banana and a couple of the treats previously mentioned. I don't know if this is good or not - she's eating and enjoying fruit but quite a lot of it.
   Not that I want to make a habit of discussing CBeebies but this is more by way of an illustration at how somethings pass me by until that Eureka moment several weeks after everybody else. Anyway during the weekly shop I picked up a ZingZillas cuddly toy that was on offer, giving Bethany something to cuddle for the duration of the shop and it was only when unpacking at home, when taking off the tag that the doll's name was spelled Panzee. That is when it struck me that, what with them all being monkeys, that she had been given a name as a derivative form of chimpanzee and the fact that it sounded feminine like a flower was a bonus. I presumed that Tang was therefore a derivative of orangutan and concluded that the creators had missed a trick in naming the other characters Zak and Drum. As the former is based on a gorilla Gor or Rill would have been more apt and the latter is apparently meant to resemble a Golden Lion Tamarin so Tam would suffice. They could have even spread the net further with Babs the baboon or Gib or why not Obo who would be the horny character. Incidentally is Drum supposed to be a pastiche on the drummer being the butt of the jokes in the band with her childlike syntax and simplistic attitude parodying the stupid drummer cliche.