For a number of years while conversations at the school gates turned to the relief of the approaching weekend, we gather ourselves together for the hardest morning of the week, Saturday. Before Isata left for London to take up her full-time scholarship at the Royal Academy, five of the children were making the Saturday journey to Junior Academy. Now, the younger three travel with me to the primary and junior departments. We have spent years bracing ourselves on Friday nights for the relentless and dogmatic timing of the Saturday morning routine. The clearest way to illustrate this family routine is perhaps to focus on the era when the older five were travelling to London, at the time when Stuart would travel with them (we have

Source: The Times August 28, 2020 15:56 UTC