One of the benefits of home education is being able to your shopping during the week, off-peak. Of course one of the benefits of school is being able to do your shopping without any children at all.
However, we are in Tesco to do a big shop at the busiest possible time and it’s while I’m contemplating this situation that I start to fill someone else’s trolley and attempt to push it away, even though mine clearly has a baby and a toddler in it and hers clearly does not.