Beans

[Benjamin]

> 
Yael: BTW - that blonde hair is cute, but you still look more like 
Harry than Draco. What is a "bean-bag"? Is that related to everyone 
in the UK saying our baby girl is "full of beans"? :)
> 

Is he trying to look like Draco? Personally I think it is better that 
he looks like Simon...

Full of beans means jumping up and running around a lot.  You can't 
jump on a beanbag, 'cos it is a fabric sack filled with balls of 
expanded polystyrene which moulds to your body when you sit in it, 
and as such, sadly, doesn't spring.  Of course, if you put your 
daughter into a sack and she continues to jump around a lot, it could 
possibly be contrived to call that a bean-bag. But I wouldn't 
recommend attempting the experiment. 

Simon has one (beanbag) which is multicoloured, onto which I managed 
to bring us both crashing down when I tripped over the corner of the 
bed as I tried to go down stairs to dinner.  However, the deadly-
beanbag reference is actually from an article I read recently
http://www.newscientist.com/feedback/feedback.jsp?id=ns229415
apparently over 1000 people (in the UK) needed hospitalisation due to 
accidents with beanbags last year.  Not to mention injuries from 
vegetables, tea-cosies, pants...

That's really too much information isn't it? The colour of 
embarrassment is plain yellow, though can incorporate black features 
in some circumstances.

-Ben.