Here lies my delayed birthday present - a stylophone.

It's a classic toy, and an addition to my small collection of fairly crap instruments. Of course, I knew what this was, I wasn't quite ready however for how crap it would sound. There's three settings to make different noises, and the second one produces one of the worst sounds I have ever heard. Nothing sounds good on a stylophone, that's for sure.

However, as is usually the case with me, there has been a problem. As it happens, this is what my mother bought me as a 'surprise gift' for Christmas. She was very excited indeed, she was sure I'd love it - only to be told that I'd just got one this very day from someone else.

Well - that's the fun gone out of that then.