“Grandad, Grandma – there’s a rainbow outside”
We rushed onto the street, our daughter with her camera.
“Can we go to the end of it” asked, Harry, age 5
“Not now , dear” said Grandma “but perhaps after tea if it’s still there…”
My wife was a science teacher but she also knows that puncturing a little boy’s sense of wonder with the cold, hard facts of science can wait a little while longer….