I received a double tip-off the other day, courtesy of both A Girl In Winter and Katiepops, that life-sized models of Munkeh have been spotted for sale at various locations around the country. These ‘stunt-munks’ are made to roughly the same dimensions as Munkeh, and though not as cute, would still make a good monkey-mascot for those bereft of a monkey companion.

I set off on the investigative trail to try and track down one of these imitation Munkehs.

Looking for a Munkeh lookalike

Now, my hidden camera received some interference whilst in the store, but I can assure you that there were stacks and stacks of imitation Munkehs all over the store. What’s more, the Stunt-Munks were wearing a rather snazzy Christmas jumper, so I invited one to accompany me home where he immediately made the gift of his jumper to Munkeh, who he seemed to hold in some reverence.

Munkeh seems a little suspicious of his slightly wonky doppleganger, so I haven’t told him about the entire army of such Stunt-Munks that I encountered in the shop, but the one that followed us home doesn’t seem like a bad sort, really, and Munkeh does like his new jumper.

Munkeh's new jumper

He’s even been wearing it to social occasions:

Munkeh's 'going out' jumper

If you’d like your own life-size model of Munkeh, I entreat you to go down to your local supermarket and look there. They are well dressed and even come bearing a free box of tea, which you can give to your nan,

Rule one of living with monkeys is if they apear to be organising or planning something it’s probably best not to ask.

Monkey and chums plan something

Monkey’s small chum Munkeh is always hungry. Availability of food and the scale of happiness of this little monkey chum are closely correlated.

Munkeh is always hungry