This blog is based on actual events... Monday 23rd March, 2015 5:45am - Awoken by shouts of 'Daddy! I've finished my poo-poo!' 5:50am - Bum wiped, back in bed 6:00am - Can't sleep. Check Twitter. 6:10am - Boys making too much noise. Time to get up 7:05am - 2 episodes of Peppa Pig and 1 Scooby-Doo watched. Boys successfully dressed. In car on way to nursery 7:25am - Back home. Breakfast and cup of tea in front of news. Check Twitter. 8:15am - Damn! Is that the time? Need to go

It was a hot summer’s day on the Costa Del Sol when my life changed. I had just finished reading the fourth book of my holiday, a mystery thriller. I slapped the paperback down onto the hot poolside slabs. I was annoyed to have guessed the main twist after the first third of the book; I am a lazy reader, not a bookaholic like my wife who devours books like I do curry (or beer). But I was increasingly finding that the books I had read were of a similar formulaic style. The lan