Quite an eventful festive season break — even if I was stuck in Kommetjie with a home improvement to-do list as long and realistic as most election promises.

My wife got fixated on turning our outside cottage into a pastoral holiday let. When I reminded her that it was late in the season to be contemplating such grandiose schemes, she merely worked me harder. Having been the only pupil at Muir College to be asked — nay, told — to give up woodworking, things could have gone awry...

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