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Tim Dowling: the oldest one is moving out – and this time it feels final

I’ll have no one to watch Deadwood with any more, but at least we can fix the ceiling in his bedroom

For the last couple of months, a dining room table has been squatting over the coffee table in our living room, like one animal threatening another. It’s not in the way exactly, but it’s still a strangely oppressive use of space. Anyway, in a few days it will be gone.

The oldest one is leaving home for the third time – or the fourth, if you count going to university, which I do, because I cried that time, my vision blurring as I tried to punch my registration number into a car park ticket machine.

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