8.00pm

I’ll be disappointed if Reservoir Mum isn’t high on the chlorinated steam rising from the spa bath at her mid week all expenses paid Sports Medicine conference at Hepburn Springs right now but all I can really think of, as the time creeps on towards 8pm, is the long night ahead where I’ll be juggling the ever-waking Tyson and Maki solo and that’s why I pause just before turning their light off to try for something a little sneaky: