Safe distance

Backstreets of Phnom Penh, the view from a friend's apartment.

Thank god I am here this week, 10,000 km from the UK. Posting your offspring on social media platforms going for their first day at school seems to be the latest craze, which I haven't noticed in previous years.

I do wish people wouldn't comment in great number that 'Maisie looks so grown up' or 'it only seems 5 minutes since Hubert was born'.

Oversized uniforms make a child look young and about the size of a gnome. Check your calendar as it's likely to have been between four and five years since birth.