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'Daddy is such a greedy bugger. He ate my in-flight meal!' Olive (photographed playing in the sandpit with cousin Oscar at Baxter Farm)

Embarrassing but true. The Qantas steward dumped a 'special' meal in front of me. I protested saying I hadn't ordered a special meal so he showed me the foil packet which had 'TATHAM seat 47G' on it. When I asked him what it was, he said it was a 'PWML' meal but he hadn't a clue what that stood for (obviously Australian humour). Hey, if somebody gives me a meal, I don't ask too many questions, I just eat it. I have to say even by aeroplane-food standards this was really bad. Mashed potato, mashed carrot and mashed chicken with a serious lack of seasoning. The bottle of milk should have given it away but I drank that too. (I thought the rusk was a petit four.) Twelve hours later the same steward tried to sell me a 'PWML' breakfast. No way, I told him, I'll stick to the full English thank you very much. Only when I fired up the laptop on the ground and Googled 'PWML' did I discover I had eaten a two-year-old's 'post-weaning meal'!

Sorry Olive!