I wash all my work clothes in the evening, but leave them until morning to throw them in the drier. That’s the guy way to get out of ironing.

The trouble with this method is that I have to remember to throw them in the drier first thing in the morning, a time of the day when my brain cell is not always switched on, so when I started the wash machine this past week, after loading my clothes in it I went straight to the desk, found a post-it note, wrote “Don’t forget to put your clothes in the drier, dumshit” on it and stuck it to the bathroom mirror.

I heard My Darling B chuckling to herself later while she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom. When I stuck my head in there, I caught her reading the note I left to myself.

“I know, it’s pretty funny that I have to leave a note to remind myself to dry my clothes.”

“No, what’s funny is that you misspelled ‘dumbshit,’” she corrected me.