As a childless man, a new coffee machine is my priority

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Vance isn’t wrong about all of us. While most childless lives don’t conform to his cliche of atomised self-regard, mine does, more or less. Home is a rented garconniere (a bachelor’s flat) of almost inhuman silence and orderliness.

There being no kindergarten fees or SUV to save for, the share of earnings that goes on food and wine would make Churchill tut. Loading..

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