In some ways it feels like the summer never happened.
We’re back at school a few weeks now. A tracksuit top, one raincoat, one calculator, a pair of runners, several lunch box lids, all the green crayons and an entire schoolbag have been lost over the course of those treacherous first few weeks in the primary- and secondary-school-year trenches.
It’s all achingly familiar. A bit like the whoops of delight across the WhatsApp subgroups when training or matches are cancelled. Yes, all the parents say, “thanks coaches. See you next week,” but in the subgroups the truth comes out.
If you’re wondering what a Whatsapp subgroup is, it’s a little group formed with members of the original group, where parents who drink mar
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