But they don't believe me when I tell them we didn't have a computer

Cherub has, for no reason I can fathom, recently become obsessed with what used to happen in "the olden days". Some three year olds might ask an older person. Cherub has the much better plan of just informing us, from memory.

Here's a few of the interesting facts I have learned so far:

1. They used to fill up their houses with milk

2. Cherub was turned into a mouse called Jerry. So was everyone else. The only way to work out who was who was to look at which house a person was living in. Then Cherub moved houses and it got confusing

3. They didn't eat lamb

4. They used to have carrot races. The carrots were big enough to sit in and had wheels. They went very fast, particularly if they had rocket boosters.

5. I wasn't born yet. Neither was Bundle. Only Cherub was, that's why he knows all this stuff.

6. Sometimes the food that a person was eating would turn into a sword and they would go "ouch ouch ouch".

There will be more. I'm just going to add them as I learn them.

I have carefully advised Bundle, who starts school in a few weeks, that a teacher may at some stage ask the class if anyone knows about the olden days. If this happens, his answer should really really not be based on anything he has learned from his brother.