I Wore Sunglasses On My Daughter’s First Day Of School – To Hide My Teary Eyes

She invited the decorator, who was painting our house at the time, to her 4th birthday party and, still now, regularly stops people when we pass along the street to ask what they’re doing in their gardens. When we had to have our front wall fixed, she eschewed CBeebies in the mornings in favour of sitting on the doorstep with a bowl of Cheerios “to talk to Chris the builder”.