Before moving on from the sin of sloth, I feel I must also point out that sloth does not always look like a lager lout sprawled out on a couch in front of the TV. Someone who is slothful may also look extremely busy to everyone else and never consider themselves...

A sloth is a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws. Flanders and Swann wrote a wonderful song about the sloth which says, 'A Bradypus, or Sloth, am I, I live a life of ease...

I hate gardening with a passion, though I do love to look at other people’s gardens. The reason I dislike gardening so much is fundamentally because I am lazy and it is hard work. Weeding is one job I particularly dislike, since weeds seem to grow so much more quickly...