He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.
Mr Deuchars said a grandchild could make a claim on their grandparent's estate on death if their own parent was already deceased, but the grandparent had no legal relationship in life.