I was away in Munich at the Theater der Welt Festival at that time, acting in a play produced by two of our sons. They have their own production company and will be putting on their latest show at the Edinburgh Festival next month. I play a mid-European intellectual and a benign presence somewhat akin to God. What's more we've got lots of help to run the shop in Oxford and will be showing all three weeks at the Festival Book Fair in Chambers Street. Meanwhile I am busy putting sleepers into the stock.
Any partnership is a compound of anger and delight and all stages in between.
If it isn't, there's probably something wrong.