to feel completely inadequate because of a ...

[plonker]

...cartoon character!

God I wish I could be more like Humf's mum (...and no, I don't mean blue and hairy!!).

She's calmness personified. She never get's rattled and she never loses her cool. I spend my life running round like a headless chicken, barking orders and losing my cool.

I'm a shit mum and I want to be like Humf's mum

humf's mum is calm because she never has to look after humf! humf is always sent off to play upstairs or downstairs or sent to uncle hairy. think of poor loon's mum. taking the kids out for the day and promising them a treat at the end, trekking around all those shops only to find the library closed and the cinema only offering adult films. poor feathery thing