At High Pavement school in Nottingham, Peter developed a keen interest in jazz, and picked up his first drumsticks.
Sally, like many parents here, sometimes drives part way and the kids cycle the last leg to school on the pavement.
For example, there are what look like forgotten mounds of dirt pushed up against two trees at the school, surrounded by pavement.
She's separated too: we once had a hurried, but heartfelt, conversation on the pavement outside school about it.
He was a clever boy from the Nottingham council estate of Bestwood; a lorry driver's son hoisted by the 11-plus to the local High Pavement grammar school and groomed for white-collar work.
But over time, as urban neighborhoods have become less safe and suburbs have sprawled, parents have become less and less likely to let their kids pound the pavement to school.
Sallisaw got a high school and its first pavements.
Much like theme parks, shopping centres, normal parks, offices, festivals, schools, markets, restaurants, pavements, gyms and most other places, your commute is full of people you innately want to kill.
As I slowly recounted the way their children's blood had slipped along the pavement from the school uniform shop – with workmanlike interruptions "end para", "full stop" – they witnessed their still fresh loss being rendered into journalistic cliche.
In Hackney's Victorian terraces I have shared pavement space and school-gate waits with people who I would never otherwise have met.
