Sometimes all my energy is utilised systematically to help me achieve great efficiencies, and sometimes I just run around in circles very quickly until I get dizzy and fall down.

Random examples I can think of - okay I wrote them down - include the following ...

My three daughters constantly reel off things they need; shampoo, socks and chocolate are regulars.

I immediately add these items to my running shopping list, along with any special dinner ingredients or housekeeping articles I need, then pop the list in my pocket and run through the shops on my way back from school drop off.

Very impressed with my extensive and detailed list last Wednesday, I was confounded at the shops when it was not in my pocket.

Only after extended searching did I realise that my house coat, hanging on the coat rack back at home, housed the precious document. Argh!!

Do you ever run out of ink in your printer and say, 'Oh well, that's good timing, I didn't really need that document at this very moment'?

No, the whole reason you are standing there wasting priceless moments of your life waiting for the paperwork is because you need the paperwork right now.

And don't even get me started on buying the wrong expensive ink cartridge and only realising - after you have efficiently disposed of all the packaging and tried to insert it into your machine- that it won't fit.

Apparently each little identifying number counts people!

Speed must be skilfully applied on each occasion it is employed.

With everyone at my place indulging in a supper of honey-drenched crumpets and marshmallow-topped hot chocolates at present, I'm often packing up the tea and toast drawer late into the night.

Assuming that everyone raised in my care understood that the smooth sailing of a tightly-run ship can totally depend on a lid being well screwed on - much like a head - I recently tossed the honey jar in.

Loose lips sink ships and loose lids can kill kids...no, I didn't hurt anyone but some fast clean-up was required.