My English goddaughter, who is all of eight years old, made her own Christmas cards last year. She pasted bits and pieces on to them as a collage and painted little pictures. Her mum wondered what the odd smell emanating from the kitchen was, and found daughter dear merrily using the microwave to dry them ... it was set on "low" and she was nuking them in ten second bursts and then checking to see if they were dry.

And it worked! She still got a right royal bollocking, however.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...