Huzzah! Whether by coincidence or because of the barrage of emails I have sent in the last couple of days by various methods we get the go ahead from the Guinness Book of Records

The guidelines are pretty tight but we think we have a good chance of success.

The item submitted must be:

1. made from exactly the same materials as the original,
2. must be to scale
3. must work in the same way as the original.

Hence our cushion is made of rubber latex, is to scale and when you sit on it (or several people sit on it as is necessary) it makes the appropriate noise.

But here's the sting in the tail from Guinness. Remember the soberly dressed person with the stopwatch and clipboard on Roy Castle's Record Breakers? It costs £1,500 a day plus expenses to have someone like that turn up and ajudicate your record attempt.

Astonishing.

Happily they will accept hear say and rumour as evidence so we can make an application but will need to wait to hear if we get the record.

Actually they need quite a bit of evidence but this we can do.

Now to make my monster!