[~Helen~]

And now I'm off to bed having just spent probably quarter of an hour trying to, of sorts, break into my parents' house. The last thing you want when you get in at 2.30am is to find they've left the bloody key in the otherside of the lock . After trying and failing to push their key through with mine, I tried the arms through the letter box approach but despite having fairly skinny arms, I do not however have arms that bend in weird ways, so couldn't reach the keys to either unlock the door or remove the keys. Using my car arial (most convenient stick-type devise!) to try to fish the keys out of the lock wasn't proving successful either and it was this point my mother woke up (despite me trying to be quiet, there is only so quiet you can be with both arms and an arial shoved through a letter box pulling at keys!) and let me in having come down to find out what the noise was. Fortunately there is glass in the door and she could see it was me rather than thinking I was some burglar!