“It will only take two minutes, why don’t you just get on and do it?”

Procrastination might have been the thief of time, but it was the defender against having to do one’s Homework. Of course, it would have been much simpler to have simply got on with it, much simpler to have come in and to have sat down and completed the tasks so as to have the rest of the time free and so as to have to give the work no further thought.

Hearing the exhortations to …