This afternoon neither Jade nor Topaz had a sleep! They sky-larked as usual, talked, threw toys etc.

Then there was a distressing deep announcement of discomfort which sent me to discover one boy in a precarious position.

Both had taken their trousers off and thrown them overboard. And Jade was face down bottom up, or should I say bottom out the side of the bars of his cot, with his nappies off.

He had become wedged there as his cheeks closed in around the dowel and his upper thighs being of the well-sculpted variety would not let him project himself forward to free himself.

Once re-diapered and set back in his cot I left the curtain and door open pending the eventual 'getting up' moments later.

Now the tikes are outside in their nappies and sweat tops, prancing through puddles of mud. Topaz tried to drown a computer mouse in one too - it is now drip drying in the shower.