Thank you!! That’s really helpful - will put it on my to-buy list 😄 Between the dog on woodwork and the teenager doing handstands and causing havoc sliding bare feet down his newly-decorated bedroom walls I’m starting to feel that decorating is a job that’s no sooner finished than it’s restarting 😄

Gary, do you know of a paint that would withstand scratches from dog paws, please? Our dog likes to survey the world from our wide and low window sill in the living room and the paintwork is suffering 🤦🏽‍♀️

That runs too big a risk of it not being dark enough once milk is added - if you’ve gambled wrong you’d either have to put a soggy and cooling teabag back in, waste a whole new bag, or have a pale beige cup of warm milk 🫣Best just to add milk at the very last minute before bag removal to be sure…

Nah, bottom left is the only right option, otherwise how do you know if the tea is the right colour to safely take the bag out 🤷🏻‍♀️

For me, I’ve been in a bit of a rut of anything by Ann Cleeves, Jaqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, and anything for adults by Anthony Horowitz - though I’m finding that using the library’s fab BorrowBox app means I’m definitely reading things that I otherwise wouldn’t pick up.

My son’s leg-up out of his reading slump aged about 10/11 was the John Flanagan Ranger’s Apprentice series - they fired his interest immediately and he’s still sad that the last three of their Brotherband sequels are almost impossible to get hold of here.