It could be a long night. Wife has just settled little kid back into bed. Big kid is coughing and snorting away, wide awake two and a half hours after going to bed. He’s started his asthma plan, and the room reeks of Olbas Oil and Vicks VapoRub.

Mild-mannered administrator by day.

Dad and personal butler, cook, dishwasher, driver and bedtime storyteller to two boys by night.

Decaffeinated left winger, sugar-free centre half.

0.5% cheese by lung volume (up to 11).

That was then.

This is now.

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