So I just picked this Teddy up off the ground plane and went to hand it back to the little boy in the pram who'd thrown it out... but he had turned into my cranky grandpa! And all the time the shadows were only half of what they should be. :)

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)