However hard it is to leave your kid screaming at nursery, it is a whole different level of difficult to leave him slumped and silent under a general anaesthetic, to help carry him in his tiny gown to the operating table, and then be ushered out of the room by a host of scrubbed up surgeons. What can you do for those impossibly long two and a half hours? But he has been very unwell. And we have all been through the hell of it.

It was a runaway bestseller in her homeland and has become something of a cult classic over here. It was thoroughly delicious as was the Glenmorangie, though potent and a little more fiery than I remembered! January 27, 2015.