From the touchline to cleaning up time on a Sunday afternoon

Any thoughts that a day waits on the horizon when life might revert to how it was before the children were born has been handed a reality check in recent weeks.

- with Mike Hill

Specifically the dream that Sundays may once again become a day of rest.

A long lamented time when all of the weekend newspapers and their many supplements could be spread across the carpet and devoured from cover-to-cover.

The Sunday Times was cancelled within weeks of the first born arriving with other plans for how the Sabbath would henceforth be spent and a barely opened pile of papers gathering dust on the lounge floor.