On Christmas Day Bryn suggested watching Wallace and Gromit, the new one, Vengeance Most Fowl. We had enjoyed watching them, when the boys were little. The handcrafted detail and humour made it fun viewing as adults too. On Christmas morning, while dinner preparation was in full flow, Shane had helped jolly us along by finding an advertisement-free Christmas radio station. It was no surprise that “Merry Christmas Everyone” by Shakin Stevens came on more than once. Independently Shane and I commented on remembering Bryn making a stop motion animation to accompany this song, using a combination of toys, plasticine figures and a lot of cotton wool. He soon discovered it took a very long time to make a one minute video and timing the actions to fit the words of the song was a further challenge. He did well but soon concluded this might to too time consuming a hobby. I don’t know if the inspiration was entirely from Wallace and Gromit, but he obviously hadn’t fallen out of love with their animations, in fact his admiration might even have grown, as a result.