Sadly, never having had children, I cannot relate to much to this your love for them however shines through and that has to be a good thing.

Cleaning ducks? Nope unless it's a case of one swapped vowel I don't get it.

On a side note Mike I remembered that you had the NEXT MK2 on order, apparently they are being dished out at last so you may want to keep an eye out for it.