"Why do I always have to get cross ...

...before you do anything I ask you?" is something I seem to say on a regular basis to S.

And then I remember, suddenly, my mum saying virtually the same thing to me as a kid. That brought me up short. Maybe there's some truth in the old saw, that your children are your parents' revenge (or something to that effect). :D

You would not believe how long someone can take to put shoes and a jacket on.