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27 January 2010

As Horace Walpole once said, the world is a tragedy for those who feel, a comedy for those who think, and a noisy mess for those who live in my house.

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I still don't know what that was about. I'm turning into Bemused Dad -- a kind of Thurber character. Things just happen and no one bothers to tell me why, unless it's something gross enough that no one wants to clean it up themselves.

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Girl, the ten-year-old, is standing in the hall shouting "I'm pressing charges!" at my ...