On a sunny lawn, a small white Havanese with a silky coat, seen side-on with all four legs clearly visible, steps carefully between the rungs of a wooden ladder laid flat on the grass, while a Black girl of about nine crouches at the far end holding out something tasty and her dad, a Black man in his forties, watches smiling.

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The Kerb Edge

Remember walking along the kerb as a child? Arms out like a tightrope walker, one foot in front of the other. The first few goes, you wobbled off every few steps. By August you could do the whole street without looking down.

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