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Some news

 Guardian ( March, 11th 2006) , David Nicholls

I cradled my son and abandoned Ewan Mc Gregor

« The most dramatic change to our weekend routine has been the arrival of our son Max, four months ago. Not that Friday nights were ever spent drinking martinis in exclusive night-clubs, but inevitably  a lot more time is now spent at home, eating too much and falling asleep halfway through movies.

By Saturday morning, my partner, Hannah is desperate for some exercise and goes for a swim while I take Max for a long, aimless walk through the park. Returning from her swim, Hannah discovers that she's worn her goggles too tight  and has two perfect black eyes. That night, she goes out  for dinner with Friends. It's the first time, I've spent more than three hours alone with Max, so while Hannah's out explaining how she got the black eyes, we're preparing  for this latest rite of passage. Feeding is fine and the bath goes as well as can be expected but I can only get Max to sleep by holding him vertically; as soon as he approaches about 10 degrees from the horizontal, he starts to wail.

 After an hour or so of lowering him into bed in extreme slow-motion, I give up and resort to lugging him around the dark house in a basket like an overstuffed suitcase.

When he is finally asleep, I attempt  to watch a DVD . I have shameful passion for cheesy action movies and very low critical standards in this respect. As long as something's exploding regularly, I am usually fine, but tonight I soon give up the DVD and accept the fact  that I will never know if Ewan Mc Gregor discovers the sinister truth that lies beneath the futuristic society.

         I channel-hop instead and fail to enjoy or understand nine different programmes until Hannah comes home with some Vietnamese food. As a rule of thumb, it's not good idea to eat takeaway immediately before going to bed. Max decides it might be funny to wake at 5.30 and so is once again carried from room to room, strapped to my chest while I try not to stumble into the doorjambs. Then, in  an attempt to lose some of the weight I put on during pregnancy, I go for a bike ride(…) “

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1. The article deals with: The new life of a man becoming a fatherWomen giving up their dutiesThe loneliness of a man with his babyI don't know

2. The baby is called MaxDavidHannahI don't know

3. The father has already spent more than three hours alone with his Baby wrongrightI don't know

4. His wife goes swimming on Saturday eveningFriday eveningSaturday morningI don't know

5. What happens to Hannah when swimming she gets an allergy caused by waterShe almost drownsShe gets dark eyes because of her gogglesI don't know

6. How does Max fall asleep? verticallyby being cradled watching a moviehorizontallyI don't know

7. David enjoys ..Romanceshorror moviesaction moviesI don't know

8. David spends a long time watching the movie. wrongrighthe falls asleepI don't know

9. Hannah is obliged to wake up early to feed Max while David's sleeping actually both are led to wake upWrongrightI don't know

10. How can you sum up this article? A father should not eat takeaway food!!David changes his way of living and lives up to his paternal dutiesDavid is an everlasting teenager who doesn't understand who being a father meansI don't know