And the prize for PARENTING goes to…
When you’re pregnant you think: ‘I’m having a baby!’ It doesn’t occur to you that this is a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves; share a fridge with 10 strangers; go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose; and, one day, bring you a gin and tonic when your own mother is dying.
We set ourselves insanely high standards before even looking at any of the many rule books. But, ignoring them all, and having been a very – very – imperfect teenager myself, I was perfectly
