
I’ve got a few photographs of me on my holiday with my dad. There’s one on a stony beach somewhere in Wales. I don’t remember where: I was about a year old, wearing a woolly cardigan and staring into space while my older brothers busied themselves with bucket and spades and baiting each other.
In this one (above), we are standing outside a castle, again…
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