Josh is eighteen today - the last of Helen's boys to become a man.

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He hates having his photo taken and tends to pull faces - this is him a couple of years ago unaware that he was included in the picture of his hawk.

I asked him what he wanted and have bought him some bits for his Land Rover, but yesterday I gave him at great expense (£1 for 11 packets from Morrisons) a bag of kiddy sweets for his last day as a child, and today - for something to open - a nice grown-up box of Thornton's chocolates.

Jacob was twentyone last month and they celebrated the two birthdays with a day off-roading in their Land Rover.