Olli
Seven years old. Four hundred questions a day.
Olli has chestnut-brown hair that has never once done as it was told, freckles across the bridge of his nose, and a yellow hoodie he would happily wear to a wedding. He is seven, which is exactly the age where the world stops being something that happens to you and starts being something you can go and look at.
He is curious in the specific, exhausting, wonderful way that seven-year-olds are curious — which is to say he does not want the answer so much as he wants to find it himself, and he will take the long route to get there.
His courage is unreliable in an entirely normal way. He is rarely brave beforehand. He is frequently brave about nine seconds after the thing has already started, which as anyone who has taught a child to ride a bike will tell you, is the only kind of brave that counts.
He is not good at waiting. He is not good at tidying. He is extremely good at noticing the one interesting thing that everybody else walked straight past.
Olli in every mood
Watch Olli
8:062–4 yearsGetting readyA Very Slow Bedtime
Teeth, pyjamas, one story, then another story. Nothing happens, on purpose, for eight minutes.
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6:246–8 yearsFootballThe Goal That Nearly Was
Olli practises the same shot forty times. Waffle saves thirty-nine of them, which is not what anybody wanted.
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5:182–4 yearsGentle mysteriesWho Moved the Wellies?
Two boots. Two different rooms. One dog with an entirely innocent expression and a great deal to answer for.
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8:424–6 yearsCamping outThe Garden Camp-Out
You do not have to go far to go camping. Six metres from the back door is quite far enough when it gets properly dark.
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Olli things
NewOlli Best Mate Doll
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