If you are currently a parent to an 18-month-old, you will be familiar with the heart-stopping terror of finding a marker lid lurking in your hallway minus the accompanying marker….
…it can, of course, only mean one thing: your hiding place for art materials has been uncovered, the colouring shoebox has been ransacked, and your gaff is now covered in squiggly bits.
Of course, the law of Murphy dictates that this will not be a marker of the friendly, washable variety, but rather the more permanent heavy-duty kind, as one of these top-shelf pens has somehow migrated from your glove compartment to not just inside the house but is now also to be found on the inside of your new cream blouse.
My house is currently getting ransacked daily because, whether it is a container of…