No sooner was it said …

Having boldly put in and had accepted an offer with all the philosophical accoutrements in place over roads less travelled and the sacrifice of choice than we had reversed gear, burnt rubber and found ourselves once more rudderless and apprehensive. An emergent planning issue was the substantive cause of disquiet coupled with a vague sense of being led although more by our own enthusiasms than anything else. I was driving to York and a grand mal sense of deflation overcame me until I was greeted by cries of Grandpa and the unstoppable force field of young lives.