Wait till father gets home

The Scotsman | May 27, 1999| | Copyright

SOMEBODY HANDED me a baby to hold the other night. My three children now being in their teens, this was a rare experience, a dozen or so years having passed since I was regularly acquainted - often at quite diverting hours - with that terry-towel-clad springy resilience, the out-of-kilter centre of gravity, the astonished stare, the generous slaisters down my shirt front.

It all came back to me, if not quite up all over me: walking the floor during the small hours, dandling a small, fretful body on one shoulder while listening to cattle prices on the radio and humming strathspeys like a ...

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