I had never been on this side of the floor. The fertility clinic was at the far right of the floor, and the gynies seeing women without fertility problems on the far left, with the labs in the middle.

The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.

A 1990s study in South Glamorgan (Istance et al. 1994) found that at any time around 17 per cent of 16- and 17-year-olds were status zero. Most occupied this status only for brief periods, but around 7 per cent of the age group appeared permanently lost. Some of these were effectively becoming status zero before being eligible to leave full-time education -- they were irregular attenders during their final years of compulsory schooling.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.