Outofthemouthsofbabes

A FRIEND used to give me a home perm. This particular day she had the perm lotion and curlers all laid out on the table ready when I arrived.

But before she could start, her phone rang and off she went into her kitchen to answer it, leaving her young daughter Rachel with me.

I sat there wondering how to keep the little girl amused until her mum came back. ‘Let’s play I Spy,’ I said to her.

‘Yes,’ she said, jumping up and down in excitement. ‘I will start. I spy with my little eye something beginning with T.’

Well, I said everything beginning with T that I could see: table, torch, teaspoon, teddy.

‘No!’ she kept shouting. So, in the end I had to say: ‘I give up, what is it?’

‘Turlers!’ she shouted, pointing to the curlers on the table.

To this day we still tease Rachel about turlers.

Mrs Marjory Limb, Peterborough, Cambs.