Drenched in sweat from the Sahara sun and the nerves of avoiding landmines while digging in a heavily mined, politically turbulent area of North Africa, Cuddledog had some trouble wagging his magical tail, but when he did finally manage to do so, he was magically transported to The Magical Cloud Kingdom where Tweet Twoo was patiently waiting.

The wise old owl greeted his fluffy friend and fellow sidekick with a Tweet and a Twoo, the type that gave him his name and the two friends gathered around the recovered limb and muttered some things that we mere humans couldn't hope to understand.

The best I could do to translate this was

Cuddledog - "I HAS FINDZ WUT R FREND NEEDZ HAVENT I? NAO TEH WEBSIET WILL HAS LOADZ OV HITS. WEVE DUN IT!"

Tweet Twoo - "NOT SO FAST MAH FURRY CUTE FREND. WE HAS BARELY BEGUN R MISHUN 2 MAK MINI-ANDY COMPLETE..."

Cuddledog - "WUT MOAR CAN WE DO?"

Tweet Twoo - "BRIN ME MAH SURGICAL CRAFT TOOLS CUDDLEDOG. WE HAS NO TIEM 2 WASTE!"


In the blink of an eye, the furry mystical dog disappeared and reappeared with sellotape, scissors and the type of craft knife that we don't expect readers of this blog to use without adult supervision.

Now after 6 days of putting off actually doing anything for the Unofficial Thing-a-day our furry heroes were ready to get to work...

In between starring in his own ongoing website saga, mini-Andy somehow managed to find time in his hectic schedule to visit maxi-Andy’s REAL wall dressed in his brand new stonking winter attire, which was handmade by the utterly inimitable knitfiend okadascat.

While there, he made a very important announcement on behalf of his maxi-Pal, which friends and REAL fans alike will know was coming sooner or later….