Tour de France makes me wish I had a telly again

It’s six years since we had a telly in the house now., writes Colm O’Regan

Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those hymns to a TV-free house. We are not sitting around each at our escritoire, resurrecting the dying art of letter-writing or making daisy chains and whittling Andean musical instruments.

I am not for one minute going to say, “Yeah we’d just rather little Chathdhdabach was kept away from screens. We want her to learn through touch and smell, not passively. Have a chia seed biscuit.”