Like most six-year-olds and twins the world over, Savannah and Bella Mines are a joyful, fizzing handful.
Bella, 15 minutes the elder, is tomboy-boisterous and learning to play guitar. Savannah, more shy, is full of beans and into the piano. They are both mad about athletics, Peppa Pig, The Gruffalo…
And every single time their dad, Jamie, 39, reads them that favourite bedtime story, it is with a lump of gratitude in his throat.