Easter Bunny - yes or no?

I found Easter Daleks at Marks and Spencer, so while Jessie minded the children in the toyshop, I bought two daleks and a bunny. I wrapped them up so they couldn't be seen, and we made our way back to the car to come home. As I was packing our bags, I discovered to my horror that the daleks came equiped with a sound chip. So, out of apparently nowhere, came the metallic order to 'Exterminate! Exterminate!', causing both boys to freeze, eyes and ears akimbo to pinpoint the source of their favourite noise in all the world. I hastily invented a child with a Dr Who toy going into the lift, and got away with it. Phew.

We had a family supper with Julia and Russell yesterday, when I planned to hide the 'eggs' in her garden. Just as I was taking the bags out of her kitchen, as carefully as I knew how, blimey if the chip didn't go off again. 'Mobile ring-tone! The television! You're imagining it!' I babbled, leaping for outdoors, and managed to plant the packages undetected.

My mother, taking a pre-prandial turn around the garden, spotted the bunny and came in puzzled as to what it was. Her first thought was that it, and the two other cardboard additions were some sort of rabbit-scaring arrangement. Good grief.

It went perfectly. Without any prompting, the children stumbled across the chocolates while they had their post-prandial play, and Kit, who had started to doubt the existence of the Bunny, was re-convinced as he reckoned that the 'Exterminate! Exterminate!' had been caused by the Paschal Rodent while laying the 'eggs'.