fatherhood

For years, our household has been trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. It's tricky. Most of the time you buy a loaf of bread, or a bag of potatoes it comes in plastic. Look around your house and there's plastic everywhere from the casing on all your tech gadgets and gizmos, the lining of tins of food, to the zipper on your clothing. It's even used in fillings for your cavities.

Try finding toys that aren't made of plastic. You can, but most toys seem to be made of the ubiquitous oil-based material.

So we push it to the back of our mind until our conscience is tweaked again.

It was my turn to look after the baby today. I had to get him to have his all-important midday nap. Things were going great - I was walking along the street with him strapped in, snoozing away, when suddenly this pair of fighter jets flew over our heads trailing their sonic boom. Well, that was it. The eyes immediately opened and the nap was over.