Cheeky Chimp Feed Me Spoon

I happened on this quirky baby spoon in yesterday's Washington Post.

The plastic cover keeps things clean until chow time.

Wrote the Post's Janelle Erlichman Diamond, "its kicky monkey design will make little ones go ape."

Little ones — what about the rest of us?

$6.95 at Periwinkle, 3815 Livingston St. NW, Washington, D.C.; tel: 202–364–3076.

But what if you don't live in Washington, D.C. or environs?

Then what?

Are you supposed to shrug, and go without?

Not likely, if you're a joehead or a bookofjoe crack research team member.

They went into the cyberspace wormhole and emerged, rather worse for the wear, with some good news — and some bad.

The good news is that you can get these spoons online, and in a chi–chi red as well as pristine white.

The bad news is that the site's in the U.K. so goodness knows what shipping will cost you.

More bad news — the website won't have them until next month which, while only eight days away, might as well be the year 2525 if you've just got to have one now.

£2.99 ($5.46) here.