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Low life

Jeremy Clarke: I don't want to lose my grandsons

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

We were watching Top Gear. I was sitting on a wobbly fold-up chair at a rickety garden table in a newly decorated, though otherwise empty first-floor flat. The garden furniture was there because the estate agent said it was better to have something in the sitting room rather than nothing at all, otherwise the place might have a desolate, depressing air that might put the viewers off.

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