I predict

I'm sure that in less than 10 years scientists will proclaim they have found a gene known for posterity as the 'wrapping gene'. It will state people like me aren't clumsy, or lazy or entirely inept when it comes to fumbling with the roll of paper, the scissors and getting the tape onto the parcel and the parcel to look square and neat. We just don't have the genetic capacity to do it.

My husband has that gene ++. He can wrap like no-one's business. So we have a division of labour. I do all the shopping, selecting, lugging home. He wraps. I hope Toby inherits at least that aspect of his father. Because who can I get to wrap his Daddy's present otherwise? I mean, apart from the gift wrap service in my local friendly department store?