Fail better

I know there is a technique for putting a cover on a duvet, and I even know what the technique is without having to resort to Martha Stewart or WikiHow or YouTube for instruction. But my arms never seem long enough to hold the corners and shake the two together so it ends up looking like that first, failed pancake, the one that doesn't flip but flops over on to itself and sticks together.

As Samuel Beckett said in the same circumstance (no doubt) 
'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better'