I don't want to go there... actually I do, it was idyllic!
Let's start again.
When I was a very privileged schoolboy, if we misbehaved in a small way around the 'house' we would be set the task of writing out bits of poetry ( tra la la! ). I must have sat down to write this darned thing a dozen times, and it never meant diddly squat... but this afternoon my wife and I read it together, and it would be nice to share it in the same vain ~

I don't mind admitting it brought me to tears for the first time in my life... kids! they just never know when they are well off, do they?
Gender aside, I reckon Mr Kipling did more than bake exceedingly good cakes.