No large presents, no trips, no promises about the summer.

If you buy that child a games console in the first year I will end this.

Six.

If you say you are coming, you come.

This is the whole of it, Ivan.

This is the only one that actually matters.

If you tell a seven-year-old you’ll be at something and you are not at it, you will have done to him exactly what your mother told him you’d already done.

I don’t care what the reason is.