Sitting in a café with Haron one morning last week, eating breakfast.
Pretty young lady, late 20s, standing at the counter waiting to pay her bill, her elderly mother next to her. Daughter makes a cheeky comment in a broad Scottish accent; mother whacks her shoulder; we look up.
Daughter to waitress: “She may only be wee, but she’s always had a hard smack on her.”
Old lady: “Aye. I think it’s biological: when you become a mother, your hand just develops the reflex.”
Any scientists out there able to point us towards the relevant research?