What conkers can teach us about queer families

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Autumn afternoons

In our little local park this afternoon, my daughter kicked up leaves and looked for conkers as the dog ran for her ball and me and Jenny enjoyed a moment of relative calm, feeling the autumn sun on our faces. It was nice - then there was an excited scream, more of a squeal in fact, from somewhere among the trees, and E came bounding ou…