FAMILY
Generation games
Like his mother before him, our columnist is fanatical about making lists, but his children think it's a sign of impending senility
by MARK PALMER
0ne of the joys of getting older is realising that so many things your parents regarded as important - which made no sense to you as a young person - are in fact absolutely spot-on.
Take lists, for example. My mother was never without one. Usually, they were written on the back of an out-of-date invitation to a wedding or drinks party, and Mondays were the days when she started to compile her list for the week. Once a task had been taken care of, she would put a line through it, her sense of achievement growing as the crossed-out part of the list began to overtake the still-to-do part.