Bob was replacing the handles on a chest of drawers. Each of the four drawers had two handles.

“It belonged to my great-grandmother,” he told me. “She kept her bed linen in it, so it was heavy. She also kept a bag of boiled sweets in there. If we were good, me and my siblings and cousins, we could have one. But, we had to get them ourselves. And because the drawers were wide, it always took two of us to pull it open.

“So, one of us being good was no use, we needed two. And if any two of us got sweets that was an encouragement to the next two. She grew up in a big family. All her children had big families. She learned a thing or two about dealing with little ones!”

They say teamwork makes the dream work. In this case, it made the drawer work!