Dog hair, on carpets and clothes, mingled with the dust on shelves and finding the odd one in the butter!

Pulling a loose thread on a blouse, then a button drops off.

A light bulb popping. They only ever do this when you have no spares and it is always in a place which cannot do without light so you have to borrow one from somewhere else.

Pilling on fairly new jumpers. No wonder it was such a bargain!

You’ve just sat down with a lovely meal and drink on your lap ready to change to the programme you planned to enjoy with your dinner and you can’t find the remote control.

Noticing your new tights are laddered just as you enter an interview or arrive at a party.

Stubbing your toe.

Losing your keys when late for an important appointment or date and realising you only ever seem to lose them when late for an important appointment or date.

The underwiring in bras sliding out of place.

The smoke alarm starts to blip its low battery warning at 3am.

Telephone marketing calls.

Dirty bar of soap in the bathroom.

Lukewarm tea.

Your newspaper that someone’s read first.

Charity shop collection sacks that you fill, and nobody collects.

The sound of children squabbling, waking you at 6am.

The sound of children snoring after you’ve woken them for school yet again, at 8.30am.

An unpleasant smell that proves difficult to track down.

A bluebottle.

Inexplicably bent cutlery