Little Nutter is merrily running around the garden as I type, having smeared banana into his face.

This is considerably more sensible than it first appears – for several reasons:

1. Bananas are freely and readily available in the fruit bowl. There is no restriction of access to the fruit bowl, and it can easily be reached by creatures less than four feet tall.

2. A pleasant, fruity smell.

3. Fingers taste much nicer when you have been using them to daub bananas onto little faces. (N.B. This is only applicable to little creatures who suck their fingers or thumbs.)

4. As the day wears on, the banana becomes steadily darker in colour, matching the ambient light and making Little Nutter harder to detect in the twilight and full darkness.