“Children can survive an enormous amount of bad news.

What they cannot survive is finding out that the reassuring adult is the one who is unreliable.”

So that is the fourth thing, and I did it badly, and I have said the correct version to my daughter perhaps two hundred times since and I am still saying it.

We got home at about a quarter to one.

I made her a sandwich.

I put a film on for her, which I had never once done at one in the afternoon on a school day.