the terrible things monkeys do to them

Although this would have been an appropriate time for Edgar to have deployed one of the punchlines of the four or five jokes he knows (as opposed to one of the variants such as "What do you call a donkey with no legs? A wonky nothing") he missed the opportunity. Amos eventually adapted to being a banana enough to enjoy himself at the jungle-themed party they were going to, whilst I did some house stuff then trundled off to the allotment to start laying the slabs around where the raised beds are going to be.