Go Down Easy

I tried plenty of stern remarks with the kids this weekend. They've been high maintenance at times with the cheek and the nonsense and all.

Nothing seemed to work. They ingredients were:

• 1 part seen
• 3 parts heard

It was becoming intolerable. At one point I had to switch off John Martyn the better to be heard.

Desperate, I exclaimed, "Give a sucker an even break!!!".

They looked at each other. I looked at them. They looked at me. We all looked at my wife. For a few seconds nobody was looking at anyone else.

"Buck up your ideas!!!", I told them before storming off to take some clothes off the radiators.