They are mine and I love them beyond anything and I used them.
Not for money. I have money. For eleven seconds on a lawn.
And I did not think once, in four weeks of planning, about
what it would be like to be eight and standing on grass in the snow in a matching coat while four adults made noises.
What has happened since.
It has been, from the twenty-sixth of December onwards, extremely dull, which is the correct outcome and which no story like this ever tells you about.
He took the test in the January because the lawyers advised it and because he asked for it, and it said what we all knew it would say.
There is a schedule now. It took five months and two solicitors and a mediator called Fenella who is worth whatever she charges.
He has them one weekend in three and half the holidays, with a build-up that started in the February with two hours in a café.
