Lost

The girls have lost the remote control for the television, which means that it's impossible to use stand-by or to channel hop. As a result, the TV is mercifully off for most of the day, since E&P can't be bothered to to keep getting up off the sofa to change channels or to look in the newspaper to find out if there's anything good on. If I'd realised it was this easy to keep the infernal machine silent I'd have hidden the remote years ago...