Although I still somehow think of myself as a young mum, the reality is that my two sons, Tom (The Oldie’s Town Mouse) and Will (pop critic for the Times), are both in their fifties and have grown-up families themselves.
Far from being young, at 78 I could be a great-grandmother by now. Even so, it is with the greatest difficulty that I attempt to treat my sons as the staid, middle-aged householders they are, rather
