Some of you might know straight away what this picture is about, but let me set the scene first.

First, you need to know our bedroom is off the dining room so is in full view of anyone who comes in and out of our house and I like to keep it neat and tidy because it is so visible. I would anyway – the bedroom is an important part of any marriage but that’s not the point of this story.

We have a friend who’s been coming to our home for several years. He’s my husband’s riding buddy and they love to go mountain biking often. So Dave is often here on Saturday mornings before I’ve gotten any housework done and later that day when he brings Graham back home. Sometimes he pops in during the week too and when our youngest was going out with his eldest it was even more frequently as he picked up Angie or dropped Ben off. Since Ange and Ben married, the number of visits have lessened.

It’s convenient too that Dave’s parents live less than 5 mins away from us which is why Dave did a lot of the running around – we weren’t being lazy, just so you know. It was more a matter of convenience for him.

Anyway, one day some months ago Dave asked a question which, once asked, had obviously been on his mind for a long time and he must have been plucking up the courage to ask it. He wanted to know why we had all those teddies lined up on our bed?

Graham and I glanced at each other, grinned and responded ‘for the cats, of course!’ Then we had to explain because David doesn’t own any cats, he’s a dog man, although he’s become attached to our cats since he’s been visiting, particularly the youngest one who loves to play rough – perhaps like his dog!

Anyway, the cats love to lean up against things when they’re sleeping so the teddies stop the cats from leaning against our pillows and leaving their fur there. It was a good use of gifts we’d accumulated over the years. If David was a blushing man I expect he might have blushed then but now he knows the answer to a question that was evidently on his mind for a long time 😉