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My wife and I just about survived our kids’ teenage years. They now have young families of their own – so you have it all to come.
Meanwhile, we watch the very funny sitcom Here We Go with Alison Steadman (and other fine actors) on BBC iPlayer and can’t help picturing their teenage daughter Amy, as The Dark Lord. Do check it out.
Charles Mann, Manchester
Ed: Thanks, Charles. Even better, I shall make The Dark Lord watch it, and see if she recognises herself!
Good Lord! I almost choked on my G&T at the 19th hole. One minute you’re smiling benignly down on us from the top of the page in your exquisite Mrs T and
Mrs Truss-inspired pussy-bow shirt.
And the next you’re grinning maniacally in what looks like a Michael Foot cast-off.
Standards, Siobhan, standards.
Yours, Jonathan Taylor, aka Colonel Blimp (rtd), Tunbridge Wells etc etc
Ed: Indeed as you spotted, Colonel, I am modelling the latest in urban-chic strike fashion. All I need now is my brazier made from an oil drum and I’m ready to march. All out, comrades…