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I was watching The Desperate Housewives of New York [yes, I know! But my wife watches it and it's strangely fascinating to listen to it in the background as I sketch curves] when the thought knocked.

One of the couples [the, really, desperate, husbands are thrown in for free], who have the most awfully behaved children, are writing a book about child-rearing [they called it that and they're getting someone else to do the writing methinks]. Thus was born the anti-manual concept—a book so wrong that doing the opposite of what it suggests might just work. Not a promise but a might. 

The concept has merit, take the diet industry for instance, every day a new food is added to the kill/cure list, often to both—difficult to know what you should believe. But if I could read about the Eric Pickles Diet I'd at least I'd know some of the foods that I should try to avoid.

[Honestly! The man is an MP, and a Secretary of State, why doesn't he have a decent website—the thing looks a disaster and it uses tables for layout.

Actually, that proves my point, if you want to build a website—don't do that!]

Now we need to get Blair and Bush to write a book on World Peace and we have a chance...