Bribe

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After the happiest of days yesterday, today went slightly awry. It began very well: the Boy Wonder slept through the night, and if 5.15am was perhaps a little early for me to want to hear the summoning cry, “Gramma! Gramma … Continued

Hygienic

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“Woss your hanz!” says the Boy Wonder whenever he sees a hand basin. (Or indeed, a bidet.) It’s good advice, obviously, but the emphatic tone he uses makes me think that it’s something he must hear every nursery day lunchtime, … Continued

Washing up

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“You go and see him how often?” said a choir friend (with umpteen grandchildren, all now in their teens and twenties, several living within ten miles of her). “Why???” My answer: if you can, why wouldn’t you? At sixteen months … Continued