The daughter of one of our old friends is in hospital and
likely to be there for some time yet. Boring and disheartening. When the Prof
was down that way before Christmas, he took with him a rather splendid red and
gold dragon – about fourteen inches long, a not very cuddly soft toy, very
nicely designed, with gold embroidery and sequins on his snaky sides, who was
given me by Dr Wu last New Year. I called him Fang; he is a rather cheerful,
gung ho looking creature, and we thought he might cheer the aforementioned
patient up, which he did. He has proceeded to develop quite a lot of
personality, so when the Professor had a chance to nip into the Asian
supermarket, he bought a couple of red lanterns for Fang to decorate her room
with – we put these up temporarily, partly in order to work out how they
worked, and they are really lovely. They went off to Yorkshire
today, where we hope they have a cheering effect. There are two great things
about Fang: one is that he is a very positive sort of creature, and the other
is that he gives everyone something to talk about which isn’t any one of a
number of no-go areas, and that is always useful.
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