Think melons, shopping carts, teapots, trainers, doorknobs, taps, cookers, schoolbags, biros, plugs and pebbles can't talk? Think again. Jim 'Treacle-pudding' Wilson isn't weird, but the things he has conversations with most definitely are: shopping carts, teapots, seashells, benches, roadsigns, sailboats, a passing crow, a flip-flop, a watch, a stethoscope, pants and plugs and doorknobs, his trainers, a robot, a woolly shark, and all manner of other objects that you'd never believe could talk, but do. Jim misses his dad, who disappeared two years ago. But Jim still has his dad's old 'phone,...