I have long accepted that DH is a workaholic, but really this takes the biscuit

[bran]

He was reading The Gruffalo's Child to DS (nearly 5 yo) before bedtime and he stopped half-way through to take a business call on his mobile.

He tried to improve matters by waving the book at me across the room and waggling his eye-brows to suggest I should take over because DS was trying to sing down the phone (that's my boy ).

That isn't being a workaholic

He would be a workaholic if he MADE a call half-way through

Whether or not he needs to answer depends entirely on his job

at mp. That reminds me of winter before last when the bank that DH was contracting for did a big Christmas family thing in the Barbican. It was full of men who were looking after one child while the mother was off doing something else with the other child. Invariably they would wait until their wife was out of view and whip out their Blackberry. I mentioned it to DH as an example of a sad workaholic, and he said "maybe I should get a Blackberry".

Bran does your DH work in IT for investment banks?

Umm, sort of. It's not really IT, it's very niche and I'm not sure that I've ever really cared understood exactly what it is he does.