"My idea of roughing it", said Ade "is a manual gearbox". Oh how the other half live !

Further thoughts in this vein, shortly.

In the meantime I am trying to persuade my children to subscribe to my view of fatherhood and their responsibilities.

I have told Ellie...

"To you, your father should be as a God;
One that composed your beauties - yeah and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted, and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it."

...but alas she is not buying the concept.

Duncan