Don’t Let Your Mother Answer for You
Not as an uncle, not as a family friend from the old days, not as anything with a story attached, because I am not going to build a lie that I then have to unpick in front of him.
My friend Ivan, who I knew before, who is around now.
Four.
Daytime, in public, with me there, for the first six months at least.
Not because I think you’re a danger.
Because he is seven and he does not need a stranger in his house.
Five.
Nothing extravagant.