What do redundancy, stolen donuts, kids’ football glory, ploughing matches, and a listener’s chino disaster all have in common? Somehow… midlife.

This week Marc confesses to eating a seven-year-old’s chocolate donut (and making him cry), hiding under the bed to avoid his father-in-law, and wondering what the “right” answer is when people ask if you’re okay after being blindsided at work.

But it’s not all doom and gloom — his daughter’s school football team got a last-minute call-up to a tournament and, like Denmark at Euro ’92, went all the way. Penalty saves, underdog energy, and the kind of joy you only get when expectations are low and kids surprise you.

eanwhile, Richard reports from the cut-throat world of ploughing matches in Kent (tractors, Shire horses, Nigel Farage fans, and toy John Deeres that make grown men jealous). And in our correspondence corner, a listener discovers the hard way that mouldy walnuts are not “just fine” — resulting in punchy farts, a car park crisis, and a very public walk of shame.

It’s raw, ridiculous, and sometimes cathartic — exactly what Mum, Dad’s Got Another Tattoo is meant to be.

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