I can feel it coming in the air tonight

Thanks a lot Beethoven. Now my mum thinks this gorilla drumming to a Phil Collins song in the new Cadbury ad is an actual real gorilla. And no, she isn’t some half-baked mother whose favourite time of the week is watching Cheaters on the couch with a packet of gravy-flavoured chips. She has a respectable job as a scientist. Which is why I’m confused. If she thinks we can teach gorillas to play the drums what else do people believe? That Air Bud the Golden Retriever really can slam-dunk a basketball? That animals such as the Snuffleupagus really exist? Mice like freaking Stuart Little really do get around in buttoned flannel shirts and brown leather shoes? “They can teach gorillas to do amazing things these days Emily…” They sure can mum, they sure can.