Charles did his first mail order last week. He used his Christmas money to order a toy which, I am sure you will all be surprised to learn, was a stuffed “animal”. It was actually a giant microbe representing mad cow disease. It was basically the same thing as Cowie except three times as big. It arrived on Alice’s birthday which meant that Charles got presents along with Alice, leaving only Corwin unfufilled.Charles is still working on a good name. He didn’t like my “Super Ultra Mega Cowie” so we could say “that’s SUM Cowie!”.