I may have mentioned once or twice that I am very much missing my sons who are both away and having the time of their lives, leaving me in a rather forlorn empty nest. 

But I’m fine now. Not because I’ve stopped missing them, but because a combination of their TikToks, a few songs from the past and a quiet word with myself has, as Elbow would say, “seen me right”.

Their regular social media posts of their travels or their latest university night out make me ridiculously happy.

Like when my younger son Joe and his college mates organised an I’m A Celebrity themed night and each one of them was wearing a navy t shirt with their name and phone number printed on it in white. They then mocked up the opening of the show for a TikTok, over the famous I’m A Celeb theme music. The fact that they were having a whale of a time doing it made me smile.

Or when my older son – on his backpacking trip around the far East – was........

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