Kids can cause concern

Alistair is twelve today - it seems so long since he was a cute baby. However time flies by and he is now standing taller than Alice, as can be seen here on the tennis court with two Japanese friends, and he will definitely overtake me in the quite near future.

While I suppose this is OK, nevertheless since he was born in England and yet has spent most of his life in Malaysia or Singapore I fear that he may lose his roots. At present he is a decent soul but will he follow the true road and become a proper Scotsman, with his only link to it being my parentage?

It's a serious worry, and unless I see some signs of him moving in the right direction towards a true drunken "Scottish" manhood in the near future I really think I will have little choice but to administer a swift . . .