Every Sunday, I make the same mistake.

Bedding gets laundered; towels need washing and drying. It’s underwear washing day. But most important of all, school uniforms need to be ready for ironing when I get up at 5:30.

And every Sunday, without fail, at 10:30pm, I am still up, waiting for the tumble drier to finish so I can put the last load of school shirts in to dry while I catch some ZZzzzzzz.

It’s because every week, without fail, I start the laundry on Sunday morning.

Why can’t I start on Saturdays? I am educated to postgraduate level; I manage staff; my IQ was once measured at 143 – just one point away from an offical rating of Genius (laugh and I’ll kick your shins!) But I still leave things until it is too late; I still do all my best work at the last minute, when the pressure is on, and when I need sleep.

I think it is because the deadlines are too early.