Free the kitchen one...

The mums Mrs B hangs out with are blessedly free of any maternal competitive urges. None of that subtle one-up-babyship, boasting about their newborn's penmanship or particularly advanced turd colour.

Instead, there's refreshing honesty and self-depreciation. A good example of this is reference to the fiendish device in which Milo bounces frenetically in our kitchen.

Initially dubbed 'The Nanny' it is now called 'The Ring of Neglect'.