This is the reason I couldn’t make my bed first thing this morning! My mother wouldn’t have bought this one, you didn’t get breakfast until your bed was made and your room tidy, but hey – she’s not around! But just in case any of my daughters are reading this – yes I did make it – eventually.

Having successfully offloaded my offspring to five, very nice and accommodating young men whom I love to bits, I now find myself hostage to two four footed fiends

who think I have nothing better to do than open doors, tins, packets and anything else they desire, and who can’t even understand  a simple ‘No, not in the water again Henry!’

and yes – this post is an excuse not to show my sewing today!