Thank heavens some big strong men have stepped in to show us how it's done!
I can now leave everything in their capable hands and return to embroidering kittens. (Er - by that I mean embroidering kittens onto my scanties - not that I am actually emboidering kittens. That would be cruel. Oh dear - my little girly brain has got all mixed up - must be all this oestrogen it's swishing around in).