Dad’s World with Jonathan deBurca Butler

“DADDY, I have a freckle,” said Fionn, as he sat down on the bottom of the stairs and proceeded to pull up the leg of his trousers.

We were on our way up to do the bath and something in his little mind had triggered an urgent need to share this piece of news with me.

“Look,” he said pointing at this tiny brown stigmata just above his knee, “there it is.”