Tim Dowling: my dad thinks I’m the smartest of his kids, but then he is 102
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My kids are all absent, but here’s a transatlantic phone call with my brother and our extremely deaf and elderly father to fill my Saturday afternoonIt is a recent tradition that our adult children spend the night back at home with us the day before they travel anywhere far away. As parents we may have a diminishing relevance in their lives, but we remain very handy for the airport.I hear the middle one pull the front door shut behind him at 5.45am on Saturday morning, off on a week-long...

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