“It is a look that is full up to the top with the history of us”

IT’S 10.50am, and I’m driving into town to say goodbye to my daughter, who is flying to Barcelona for an Erasmus year this afternoon.

We’re meeting in a minute, yet I still haven’t decided which of mum’s apothegms to invoke today.

Right now, I’m considering the relative merits of, “Beware of self-pity”, and “Change is the rule of life”. The big guns. It’s a tough one.