It has not been that long since the last of our sons left the nest – but I am not handling it well
It is the season of spiders, when I am enveloped in webbing wherever I go, indoors or out, blundering through elaborate creations I cannot see.
Elsewhere, adjustments are still being made. At lunchtime I walk into the kitchen, cobwebs hanging from my hair, to find the table piled with shopping bags. I am peering into one as my wife walks in with another two.“You’re looking in the bag,” she says. “Why are you asking that question?”When the cat hears the middle one’s voice, it runs across the lawn and through the door to leap into his armsMy wife sheds the two bags she is holding so she can stand accusingly, hands on hips.
It has not been that long since the last of our three adult sons left the nest – six days by my count – but it would be fair to say I am not handling it well. Of course our sons do return, mostly without warning, because they all have keys. The oldest arrives in the dead of night after missing the last train to his side of London. The youngest one turns up in the early evening to collect the perishable food I’d rescued from his flat the day before, after he had texted me from work to say his fridge was broken.
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