How to you save a curdled custard? How do you keep mice out of the home? How do you stop moths eating your woollens? How do you get chewing gum out of a five-year-old's hair? Or get rid of his veruccas? And cure hiccoughs in a trice? The answers to all these every day dilemmas, and many, many more, are at hand in this nifty little encyclopaedia of essential things every mum needs to know.