David O'Mahony: Reaching milestones reminds me time is what you make of it

Small people have their own way of interpreting the universe and, most of the time, it’s a lot more interesting than what we’ve collectively — if grudgingly — agreed constitutes adulthood

One of my sons — Twin 2, as we still call him sometimes — made his Confirmation recently; Daughter, who is seven, got it into her head that he would be gone from their school a couple of weeks after the Confirmation. Picture:iStock

Time, they say, is a funny old thing.

Nobody ever says for sure whether that’s supposed to be “funny haha” or “peculiar like an eldritch horror” but, then again, life is most colourful in the boundaries between definitions — even if the colour is increasingly being leeched from my temples.