I remember this moment so well - when she beat all the other Mums at the musical chairs.
I must have been about eight.
Everyone at prep school and public school voted my Mum as the most beautiful of all the parents.
And clearly, from this fragment of time in memory, determined too.

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A shrink would tell you this was a defining moment in yor life..and you took your cue from your Mum's determination to win at musical chairs and applied it to whatever you did !

I wonder if she knew she was teaching you such a good lesson?

Indeed I've often thought that Veritas - but I got 99% of my character from my Mum.
Recently, just before she died, she told me how much she admired how I'd coped with the recent amusing events in my life - I laughed and told her she ought to be aware it was all inherited from her.

Having to cope with bringing up three young boys without a husband - send us through public school and, in my case, to Cambridge, but, most important, giving us a morality and understanding of humanity... it was all due to her.

I need no psychiatrist to tell me that!