![]() ![]() ![]() I thought of that moment as I looked at the families of Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, two of the victims from the early morning horror in Nottingham on Tuesday. It’s the little simple details you remember, and putting up those posters will always stay with me as the last thing I did for her before she truly became an adult, and we left her alone that afternoon. Showing the polite patience she’d always granted me throughout her first 18 years, she allowed me to do the blu-tacking - putting up the classic film posters we’d bought her to cover up the years of drawing pin hole damage left behind on the walls from previous Freshers.Īs I busied myself making sure the posters were straight, her mum and brother made the bed while she was finding which bit of the fridge in the communal kitchen was hers - preparing to mark out her territory in the inevitable battle over “who left toast crumbs in my butter?” Like most socially inept dads at key landmark moments in their children’s lives I bumbled around trying to make myself useful. I don’t know about the other three, but I didn’t really enjoy the moment we prepared to leave her for her first night in a room behind a clunking great fire door that looked like it had come off worse from regular student party nights. ![]()
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