The features of modern technology recently allowed me to eavesdrop a valuable and insightful conversation between my little one, and his four year old cousin as they walked hand in hand through a National Trust forest.

They pragmatically and succinctly discussed parental mortality; and still had time for an enlightening chat about dinosaurs – in all of 59 seconds…

“I’d be sad if my mama died, I’d be, in fact I’d just cry if my mummy died, and I wouldn’t stop until my mummy…”

“Our mums will die. Sometime. But only old ladies died.”

“Yes, really, really old ladies. Old ladies that are…”

“Is that your jumper?”

Yes, it’s a stegosaurus, actually it’s a gigantosaurus.”

“Oh..”

“Gigantosauruses are a meat-eating dinosaur that are really huge. They have to bend down to eat !”

“There’s a gate over there! Let’s run!”

I wonder if there’s a leaf to be extracted from their delightfully naive storybook…