Posted 5:45 AM by Paul
Paetheolithic Logic

Heather. Alice and Emily spent most of Friday with friends in West London near where we used to live and just a few hundred yards from the maternity hospital where both of the kids were born. Alice took an agonising (for Heather obviously) 20 hours. Emily took an agonsing 2 hours and was home by teatime.

I had to wait in for the Polish builder but I caught up with them in the early evening and we had supper at a branch of Nandos on Chiswick High Road, which is the district where I was a Labour councillor between 1994-1998. It was quite a nostalgic trip.

On the way back on the tube Emily looked into my eyes.

"It would be good to have lived in caveman times Daddy."

" Why Emily?"

She smiled.

"Because you could paint on the walls without getting into trouble."