Entry for 26th December, 2007

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I usually look after The Small Round Faced People on a Saturday as my Significant Other runs a dance school. This means that I am well-qualified to offer advice on how to approach child-care. In what may be the first of number of entries I will provide you with Alan B's Tips on Childcare.
Today's recommendation is that you do not combine caring for two children aged under two years old with any form of DIY. More particularly, do attempt to construct a flat-pack television unit. Gentlemen, I think we all already know the stress induced by self-build packages, and their smug instructions, showing step-by-step how a real man would put the item of furniture together. That stress is multiplied exponentially when 2 small wailing children are also present.
Those instruction sheets are lies. They do not show -
STEP 4A - Realise you have installed Shelf DD backwards.
STEP 4B - Attempt to retrace steps, by reversing Step 4.
STEP 4 C - Hear nasty cracking sound, much like wood splitting irrevocably.
STEP 4D - Fetch glue from the garage and attempt emergency repair.
STEP 4E - Glue own hands together.
STEP 4F - Realise with heavy heart, that you were wrong at step 4A. In fact Shelf DD was correctly installed after all.
STEP 4G - Phone father (who comes from the last generation of real men), admit defeat, and see if would mind coming over to help and gloat in equal measure.