I now have two puffins and no fox.

A complete breakdown in communication between me and the rest of my family resulted in two packets of Tetley tea bags (size 250g) being purchased both with the same free gift. A china puffin.

I now have: A mallard, an otter, two puffins and a house full of tea bags.

I've always been a sucker for the free gift stuck onto the side or inside a product.
If I like the gift I'll buy the product - even if I hate the product.

My house is full of uneaten food, unread magazines and an unused garden shovel (bought because of a free packet of garden peas - as yet unplanted)

I'm often late for work because I just cannot decide which breakfast cereal to eat, the variety of choice is alarming: Corny Flakes, Pops, Krispies, Wheaties, Munchies and Muesli. I really hate muesli but I could not resist the tangram puzzle that came with it. (still unsolved).

I consider myself an expert on consumer free gifts and I have never seen a Speedway linked item.

Now the old timers doted around any Speedway stadium will tell you that this was not always so and cite cases of Speedway goodies tumbling from Corny Flakes, cigarette packets and falling out of comics.

Why can't just one manufacturer produce a little plastic Speedway rider on a little plastic bike? Is the technology beyond them?

Football, football, football. It appears manufacturers think we enjoy eating our breakfast with pictures of a grinning Alan Shearer or Ryan Giggs staring at us.

I want to eat my breakfast being grinned at by Les Collins, Kenny McKinna or David Walsh. And I want to open my next packet of tea bags and pull out a Belle Vue race jacket.

Anyway, I'll be carrying my extra puffin around the stadium with me, if anyone wants to swap...