My husband and I would be fairly sure we each do more than two thirds of the household and childcare jobs, which means either at least one of us is exaggerating or, more likely, children create some sort of chore vortex in which doing 100 per cent of the chores requires 130 per cent effort.
Read MoreDogs on leads, folks. It’s good for wildlife. It’s good for children. Why wouldn’t you?
Read MoreI love everything about the laundry, from the piles of dirty clothes that ask only to be sorted into whites, colours and those things that are neither whites nor colours, to their turn in the Germanic front loader that’s been working diligently in our various houses for over 12 years – so powerful it shakes our current Queenslander on its stumps, as if we’re spinning towards Armageddon rather than the end of the cotton cycle – to the hanging.
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