'Our next challenge is potty training, the CAO for officially being accepted into playschool'

IT’S just a small tingle of emotion. Not as deep as other emotional moments, like, say, watching another country vote for the first time, or a goal scored from one of those counter-attacks in the World Cup, where the winger hoofs an arcing ball into the path of the striker, who has just run from his own penalty area and hits it without breaking stride.

But it is there, nonetheless. A little ripple-along-the-cheek feeling of having experienced a singular moment. Something small has changed.

Something about two foot high has changed, to be precise.