Are You Suggesting Coconuts Migrate?

Coconut shells recently entered our household. To be more exact, two half shells from different coconuts. I ask myself -- why did it take so long? Like the rubber chicken we have in the upstairs bathroom at the moment, no home is complete without some coconut shells.

They have a lot to recommend them. Their brownish exterior, smooth but not too smooth. Their lined interiors, something like the illustrations of eyeballs, but in brown. Their practical applications for holding liquid. Their musical potential. Ann has already explored coconut clapping, sometimes to the point of annoying Lilly. If you bang them open-end to open-end like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you do get a hoofbeat sound, though it's fairly hard to make it convincing. Hit the rounded sides together, and it's more of a tapping. Find a stick and you've got coco-drums.

The girls have already heard (but probably don't remember) "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts," which I have on tape. But I was pretty sure they hadn't pondered the question of whether coconuts can migrate, so I found the clip and played it for them. They pronounced it "weird," but I think it's going to stick in the back of their minds until some not-too-distant year when they see the movie all the way through, and remember the banging coconuts we had around the house.