On Day 3, I built a small scaffold with a friend who is a painter and decorator in the hallway, took down the chandelier which has hung there for the three years since we built our house, cleaned, reassembled it and changed all the bulbs. That took six hours. In the afternoon, there was nothing for me to do, so I toured the local charity shops and bought box sets of the West Wing (which we never watched at the time) and Seinfeld for my wife to while away the night-feeding hours with. I slept for a few hours in the afternoon, woke up in the early evening, and wound up sitting with my son till 3am, changing nappies, marvelling at Martin Sheen’s success at playing a Presidential role in the teeth of an unpromising physiology. I googled his height – he is 5’6”.