Recipe

After 14 months of school, with the last 6 not totally nice, take a 9 year old boy to the Saturday morning athletics training session with his brother, father and daddy's group of teens, with a 1.5km walk from the bus-stop to the track, and let him train as hard as the older kids, with warm-up, special gaits, long jump, 2x200mts and relays; then, another walk back to the bus. Remember to check the lunar calendar and the orbit's current inclination and, if everything goes right, you might be as lucky as to conjure up the yearly event you've been longing for: the next morning, Michele will wake up, as shocked as you all ("How long have you all been awake?"), not only later than everyone else in the family, but even only 5 minutes before 8.00, that is after sleeping over 11 hours and a half!

N.B. This recipe cannot guarantee success, but it is safe: the boy will not suffer permanent changes (on Tuesday morning he woke up at 5.30).