Out of the mouths of babes

I HAVE been encouraging Christina, aged six, to eat a variety of vegetables. Recently, we had a vegetable stir-fry and I asked what ingredients she could identify within it. She said carrots, sweetcorn, seaweed and crab legs. I asked if she thought the latter two could be cabbage and onions. ‘Don’t be silly, Grandma Meg, of course not — I don’t like them. I know the seaweed came off the beach, and you must have got the crab legs from the rock pool.’ I didn’t argue, and her plate was soon empty!

Mrs M. J. Boutell, St Leonards-on-Sea, E. Sussex.