babs has hours to kill every morning since the wintery dark mornings scuppered her plans to fit a
run shuffle or a dog walk into the time between her 5am wake up and the time she has to drive little E to school. she's got
duck all else to do, as she's a woman so she cannot leave the house when it's dark without protection from a MAN, and it's not as though she showers or washes her face etc, and Sharky prepares the toddlers' lunches, helps them pour their cereal etc - her only contribution seems to be hollering up the stairs to remind the kids to brush their teeth - although despite her claims otherwise, i very much doubt her hygiene-conscious son needs reminds, especially when he has the grellowing tombstones embedded in babs' jaw as a daily reminder of the importance of dental care!
all it really means is that once every six weeks, babs sacrifices an hour or so of her early-morning Netflix-and-fester-under-a-manky-couch-blanket time to add a few more shades of grellow to her scalp.