‘Mum, don’t make a show of him’
I THOUGHT I was a veteran of this first day at school lark, having merrily dispatched two sons on their way without a whimper or a tear. Take a week off work to settle them in? Pah! A day sufficed. I was constantly amazed to see parents in the local shop, crying into the courgettes after the trauma of the drop-off. “Pull yourself together, woman,” I felt like saying. “It’s not as if he’s gone to …

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