Trouble-busting Adventurer Gifts

Let's make a bonfire of our troubles.

'I was just playing rodeo and breaking horses.'

"well done rescuing my son. Now, your final task is to quietly transfer the baby to the cradle upstairs, without waking him."

Child driving a toy car

"And with you on guard, I won't have to worry about that monster under my bed."

"I always end up buying way more black-truffle honey than I intended."

"Police? My son and his friends were playing, building a moon rocket. . . I believe that they actually blasted off!"

Origami horse leaping out of a book about origami

I said, your bones ache because you’re old. I’m referring you to an archaeologist.

"Damn it, name a figure, name a figure."

'I can't believe I'm pretending to be 55 already...'

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

Wally's dye job...makes his hair look 25 years younger.

'It was a rare accident. Lightning struck his bed pan.'

You know you're getting older: when your back goes out more often than you do!

'Dad, can you teach me to swim?' 'Well, I'm not much of a swimmer, but I can teach you to tread water. I do that every day at work.'

Kick-line Deer Crossing. A kick-line of deer cross the road Radio City Rockettes style.

'There is a fancy name for your condition...Let's just call it 86 and counting.'

'It's all right, miss, I'm only loking for our cricket-ball!'

Colours

Child climbs up alphabet bricks to reach his teddy bear.

"Listen, I'm still your mother."

"Try to remember, you're not 70 any more."

"Ha! Now no one can call me 'old'! I just overtook a sports car!"

Flava Superba

"Don't worry, I won't hold my age against you."

'Look Mummy, I'm a shark!'

'WRONG PIN NUMBER!'

"He's been up all night and fell asleep at the wheel."

Child breaks fish bowl whilst playing with toy rocket

''To listen to the sea, press 1...'

Chattanooga choo choo

'What if we just cut back on our genres this year?'

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