We were leaving the house for school one day recently when Lauren suddenly piped up: “Daddy, if Zosha’s house was the other way round it would be the same old as Mummy.”
It took me a while to figure it out. Zosha is a school friend who lives on our road. I finally realised that her house number was Nicola’s current age in reverse. (For sake of argument, and chivalry, let’s say she lives at No 12.) Hannah and Lauren had just started to get the hang of big numbers and Lauren had just been struck by this little coincidence.
It’s a great insight into what occupies those busy little minds at idle moments - and a canny piece of reckoning to boot, I thought.