followed

It will be another three months before he attempts to say "spoon", but (possibly as the only utensil he's routinely allowed) he seemed very impressed with this one, which perhaps seemed the captain of all spoons to his young perception. After enduring a satnav-aided jaunt through a maze of hillside residential streets around the edge of Perth (which might possibly have been a few metres shorter than the more straightforward main-road route) TWICE when we missed the last turning and ended up compelled to return to the start of the town on the motorway) both pigs were still quite reasonable at this stage, though were increasingly less so for the remaining two hours' journey and extremely less so overnight, when Edgar basically didn't sleep and Amos woke up every time anyone else in the cousin-house breathed.