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Balls To It!

Olly Mann is a presenter for Radio 4, and the podcasts The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped and Today in History with the Retrospectors

I’M AWARE THAT occasionally in this column I’ve made it seem as if I have an idyllic relationship with my kids. That I’ve written a little too often about how joyful it is to walk them to school, expand their imaginations at the library or stand with them aside a train track and point at the locomotives. That they’ve taught me so much. That it’s all been life-affirming.

So, let

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