pre prep

Whilst some things are easier to do whilst not simultaneously balancing a fourteen-kilogramme toddler on one arm and explaining what you're doing to it I didn't go as far as pre-filling a bowl with a dose of hot oat cereal after pre-filling the coffee machine ready for the morning on the grounds that foods are more generally readily-eaten when there's been some time invested by the eater in their preparation. As it turned out he was set on generic bran flakes when he woke up, which wee administered in a much smaller bowl, as the effects of a porridgeworth of bran flakes on a thirty-month-old gastro-intestinal tract are not something I wish to bring about.