Always go to Bed on an Argument

Domestic Goddesses! Your time is up. The slackers are back.

Here are Mrs Ross's handy tips on every aspect of household management: skincare, fashion and beauty, children, dealing with blackened ovenware*, leftovers** and freezing***. And here is useful advice on how to get a lifestyle if you suspect you don t have a proper one. Some people have fabulous bodies and accomplished kids and amazing parenting skills and ideal jobs and harmonious marital relationships. This book is not for them. It is for the rest of us: we, the 99 per cent of the populations who are not so blessed and cannot decide whether to laugh or cry. Answer: laugh.

*soak, soak, soak, then throw away when nobody is looking

**decant carefully into Tupperware, place in fridge, leave for a week then throw out when nobody is looking

***leave for a decade, then throw out when nobody is looking .