How the young shop.

We go to town - where it feels like the party is most definitely over - find clothes, send photos back to the young, they agree to the purchase, we buy and bring home.

Bought Big A some new trousers and treading a careful line, trying to avoid middle-aged-looking-too-tragically-old or middle-aged-trying-to-look-tragically-young.

I just buy stuff with more and more lycra to hold it all in.