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The children are on half-term holiday, which, like all their holidays, makes it hard for me to get much work done. (Not that I ever need much of an excuse.) It's not really a case of them pestering me to do things but there is a constant need to ferry one or other of them to a friend's house or pick them up or cook lunch or dinner. And then, when I'm sitting at my desk, I'm conscious that they're all sitting watching TV or playing on the Playstation or playing on their PCs. This makes me think I should be taking them for a healthy walk or overseeing them reading a decent book or at the very least teaching them some facts about the Thirty Years' War. So my mind goes on a hike of its own through a series of brambled diversions and I end up doing nothing more than nagging irritatedly at the kids for what they are doing and offering no alternative. This sends me back to my desk in a foul mood and my work suffers further.

Happy days.