Need to hide away from the storm? Join the club

DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR A FIRST TIME DAD OF TWINS

- RICHARD IRVINE

"I don’t want to go to choir club," echoed around the house, as Emma made her feelings on singing in a public group abundantly clear.

During heated debates, I've discovered the best place to go is somewhere else, and that location is our newly acquired garage, which offers shelter from the storm.

It wasn’t well-appointed, but I now had a deck chair, a workbench, and would happily attempt to fix broken bike bits, which I knew I'd have to replace anyway, rendering the whole process a waste of time, but at least I couldn't hear the shouting.

"You wanted to go, you like singing," I heard, as I put my slippers on to shuffle out of the family home.