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Welcome back to this week's edition of the show. Always a pleasure to sit down with Tom, even if we are divided by a computer screen at the moment in these episodes, but still lots of good knowledge and wisdom and insight that we're able to bring your way across all sorts of different questions that come in. Remember, all of the questions that get asked of Tom are because people have subscribed to our newsletter and are then able to

send their questions in. Now, children and young people, obviously many of the listeners to this

podcast are parents or grandparents, Tom, as are you. Tell us a little bit about your family

in that respect.

How many children do you have, how many grandchildren?

And what's the difference between being a parent and a grandparent?

The usual line, which is a bumper sticker, is if I'd known grandkids were this much fun, I'd have had them first.

There is a bit of that. Great thing about grandkids, of course, is you get to had them first. There is a bit of that.

Great thing about grandkids, of course, is you get to give them back.

They're wonderful, but then when it gets difficult, it's somebody else's job, in theory, at least.

No, my four children, I have two sons, two daughters, ranging from mid-40s, I guess,

Julian, my oldest son is 46 now, down to about to turn 40.

And so we had our four children within seven years, which was quite something.

My wife is a saint.

And each one of my four has one, except the last one, who has two with another one on the way so we have four grandchildren and uh sorry five grandchildren and soon to be six um and uh there was

some debate among the grandchildren as to what sex they wanted the new one to be because we had two grandsons

and two granddaughters and then one other grandson. And so was this going to tilt the balance

dramatically or was it going to be? And it turns out it's going to be another boy. And I've actually

got an in vitro photograph of him

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