Well, he did, as mentioned, fix the broken bicycle chain, however, this was a few days after our youngest daughter ‘asked’ him to…I say ‘asked’ because she had actually asked me if he would be able to fix it (she was gutted that her older sister and mates could go off on their bikes and she could not) for her and I said ‘Probably as long as you don’t hassle him about it as soon as he gets in from work, give him an hour or so to relax before you ask..’
Daughter knowing best, did in fact, stand in our drive waiting for him to return and was stood expectantly blinking, wide-eyed, knocking on the drivers side window as he reverse parked into our (very tight) drive…

This as I had told her, wasn’t really the best way to go about asking him a favour and he -very grumpily – stormed out of the car and began to examine her chain. By this time he was very wound up – as I knew he would be – and ended up spending at least half an hour trying to get the chain back on her bike, only to discover that it had ’some how’ done something weird and wound itself and bent totally so there was no way it could be fixed without being taken off and put back on.
Eventually, and covered in oil, he came in, demanding a cup of tea and said daughter was quietly moaning why had he not mended it??? Luckily for her he bit his tongue and took his cup of tea upstairs for a while to chill!

A few days later he came home from work, having spent £2 on a special tool that would undo and remove the bent link and so he very quickly and easily mended the broken chain…we both learnt a valuble lesson that it is much easier to do anything, even for the first time, if you have the correct tools for the job…and also not having a 9 yr old nagging you to death also helps slightly…; )