Baldrick

Dom's current bedtime reading is Roald Dahl's Matilda, a lovely present from Julia and David to mark Tilly's arrival. It's recurring theme is the tricks played played on the nasty adults by the kids, and in the current chapter Matilda's friend Lavender has been presented with a golden opportunity. It's her job to get the evil Miss Trunchbull's glass and jug of water ready for the next lesson.

Me: What do you think she's going to do, Dom? What trick could she play on Miss Trunchbull?

Dom: I know, she could fill the jug right up to the very top and then she'd have to spill some when she picked it up, wouldn't she?

Genius. This is either testament to the absence of a malevolent bone in his body or to just how dim a view his borderline Obsessive Compulsive mother takes of food and/or drink spillages in this house.

(In case you were wondering, the prank as played in the book involved a newt from the pond at the bottom of Lavender's garden).