Discovery blanket = "Circle of neglect"

Quoting Leah McLaren from today's Globe & Mail:

"The baby in question is a gorgeous, happy, healthy boy – with a small catch. At the time, he had not yet learned to crawl. Neither was he content to sit idly in one of those hideous plastic bouncy things, playing with a row of terry toys and butterfly mirrors. Strangely, the standard-issue “circle of neglect” was boring to this baby. Instead, he wanted to be ushered around the world all day by the hand: Nothing less than a 12-hour, tottering-adult-guided tour would do."

I'm absolutely sure she's referring to the "discovery blanket" mentioned a few posts ago. Here, they are square. Germans (or Swedes - it's from Ikea) seem to prefer right angles. The description is perfect. Finlay only takes 30 seconds to lunge from the centre of the blanket to the edge, but Christine can now cook a nourishing meal for three and take the empties back to the store in that time.

Hello to Conor, Kerstin and Dave, from Ireland, who we all met last night stranded at the Dresden train station.