“He’s a calendar, that kid, he’s a clock, a great big stopwatch, staring me in the face. Cos he gets older. That’s all he can do. Do you know what that means? I’m getting older. Look at me, is that old? That’s not old. Can’t get rid of him, twenty years time he’ll still be there. Mind you they don’t always live, meningitis - that’s a good one!”