It’s official, I’m going on the school trip.

”One thing, sir,” said a colleague, “it’s a double decker Coach and the staff members all have their own favourite seats.”

”That sounds perfect,” I said, “when I’m travelling by coach, I like to sit by myself. If you sit at the back beside the emergency escape, you have more legroom.”

My preference for Sitting in the corner at the back stretches back to times when I was only five feet tall when my feet barely touched the floor and when there …