Are you a celebrity?

Your dog thinks so; your cat isn’t so sure.

Your children – if they are pre-adolescent – definitely think you are.

Grace, at aged 10, shared with me the bitter disillusionment she went through “when I was young” the time I admitted I did not know the answer…

“But I thought you knew everything!” She was five at the time.

Once you are a celebrity, people confer upon you abilities you have not acquired. Because you are so successful at one thing you do, people believe you must know a lot about other things too.