What is an Iggle Piggle?

There are 3 easy steps to complicating your life

1. Complete uni and move home to be able to afford to study for PGCE (teacher training)
2. Get back together with your ex-boyfriend, who lives 200 miles away.
3. Suffer a 'wardrobe malfunction' and become pregnant.

Yes I have managed to do all these things since August! So it seems a good point to start a blog in earnest, not least because we've decided not to inform the family and friends for a few months until we have a sensible plan.

Currently the plan seems to revolve around the fella moving home, or to a reasonably close city (as opposed to the villages we grew up in) and me toddling off to join him. All very well, assuming he can find a job and I can somehow manage to gestate and complete the first year of the course simultaneously! Hey I can do that!! Right?

So i spent today with an Argos catalogue on my knee making a list of nursery items we'd need. Which leads to the question what is an Iggle Piggle?

Igglepiggle, played by Nick Kellington, is a blue creature similar to a teddy bear. He always carries his red blanket with him, and tends to fall flat on his back when surprised. He arrives at the beginning and leaves the Night Garden at the end of each episode in a boat, for which the blanket doubles as a sail. Igglepiggle has a bell in his left foot, a squeak in his middle, and a rattle in his left hand. His best friend in the garden is Upsy Daisy [3]. He is the only character not to sleep in the Night Garden, apart from one time when he fell asleep on Upsy Daisy's bed, and also the only character to walk on the garden path. Igglepiggle is clearly not a native of the Garden but a visitor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Night_Garden

So there you go - how could I not have known that, he's on everything!! Of course that's the simplest question, more complex ones include, do i need a changing mat as well as a changing station? Will the fella let me get Eeyore blankets even though they're pink and it could be a boy? Apparently no boy of his is having pink sheets, my counter point that the donkey is blue doesn't seem to carry much weight. And finally am I evil and neglectful because I can't understand why a mini-bath to go in the bath is now a requirement - I mean a sink was good enough for both me an the fella! And surly bending over the bath will just give me a bad bad back.

All this for a woman who's now suddenly gone cold turkey on the smoking!