A spinoff of When I Were a Lad featuring sad and adorable images of meerkats as they do their best to escape grinding poverty and make a better life for themselves Already it has generated spin-offs-- When I Were a School Lad and When I Were a Nipper . Here, instead of ragged trousered children scrabbling around the streets, getting put in perilous positions--the stock in trade of the previous books--the north of England is populated with a small...