I remember walking on the beach in South Perth with my son, Colin. He is very tall, well over six foot and I am just five foot tall; his arm around my shoulders.
He was about seventeen, I was less than 40; just the two of us, kicking sand, looking into leftover piles of seaweed from people prawning in the river, laughing a lot and having a mother-son moment that are all too rare for middle children.
He is older now as I was then! How time has flown! We have had some other great mother-son moments since then, but that one was very special!
