Six Weeks. Six.

The holiday club costs more per day than the job pays per hour. The grandparents are available for one week in August and have made this sound like a favour they may withdraw. Everything else is a spreadsheet of favours between four families who are all, quietly, in exactly the same position.

The building has no windows and no air conditioning, which the staff describe as 'quite warm today'. Inside the tubes it is a different climate entirely. He went in a child and came out a small damp crisis. Two hours. Fourteen pounds. He slept for forty minutes.