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Hello, he's back.

Oops, I just referred to myself in the third person.

My ego hasn't massively expanded over the weekend.

But thank you to Greg, Roshin, Chris, James, and Seema

for sitting in the chair and keeping it warm.

Although not that warm, because it was minus five

when I arrived back today.

Right, classic moment on this is a program on Monday morning.

Amal and Justin were introduced to Teddy from Somerset,

who before he turned three, taught himself to read

and count to 100 in seven different languages,

including Mandarin, as reported to them by Teddy's mum, Beth.

So he chooses a new topic of something

to be interested in every couple of months,

or so it seems.

He was playing on his tablet.

We put appropriate games like Thomas the Tank Engine on.

And he sat there, it sounds awful, but making these sounds

I just didn't recognise.

And I asked him what it was.

And it was, oh, mummy, I'm counting in mandarin.

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