Champagne bubbles and sunscreen Waterloos

I posted this earlier in week with a paywall. and now here it is without. It's from a book 'Father Figures' edited by Paul Connolly, published in 2017. Some things have changed a bit. Some haven't.

Sixteen limbs, twenty if you count my own. Sixteen limbs, four noses, eight cheeks, four of that little bit of neck that’s not covered by the rashie, eight ridgy, uncooperative kicking feet —just the bony bits that point up towards the sun. I draw a line at the eyelids. I say they need to blink quickly enough so that their eyelids won’t get burned, but …