Dad’s world with Jonathan deBurca Butler

EDUCATION has its risks. I found this out, to my detriment, the other evening, when a routine lesson in biology went slightly awry.

On my return from work, I was met by the regular, greeting posse. As usual, Fionn was straight in there with his excited requests to do this, that, and the other and, as is the norm, Luke was in the arms of our overworked and under-paid au pair.

As she passed my youngest over to me, we tried to initiate a conversation centred on what had been going on during the day.