Summer brings warm weather and fun days in the sun… oh and spiders. I hate spiders and won’t go near them which means spiderwebs like this one have an extended stay around the house while the spider is still living in it. Takes a pretty photo though.

We love books in our house. So much so that I am always on the lookout for new children’s books. When you read five to ten books a day with your child your huge book collection can seem very small , very quickly.

But this story is not about new books. This story is about an old book (circa 1980s) that was given to us by my Sister-in-law. A classic story about a curious monkey (yes – George) who visits the zoo and steals some bananas because he’s hungry. Yes… an innocent story. And then it’s lunchtime and people are sitting on the grass eating their lunch…

But what’s that?

Let’s take a closer look…

Yes – a man smoking a cigarette.

You see kids there were once these things called cigarettes and in the 80’s they liked to show picures of people enjoying this habit in childrens’ books. And he certainly looks like he’s enjoying himself, doesn’t he?