When I was sixteen, I was involved in a Spanish exchange through my school. Sadly, my exchange partner so hated living with my dysfunctional complex family that she only stayed for a night, before moving in with her twin sister and exchange partner down the road. A new partner was found for me in the […]
As the elderflower around The Mother-in-Law’s garden bloomed, so did Amy, one of The Lodgers living in the basement. Heavily pregnant with her first baby, Amy gracefully padded around the house like a lioness last week, as the onset of labour took hold and rested its caressing contractions across her belly. And as the tiny, […]
Dressed up to the nines, the Husband and I trucked the children out to the countryside on Friday night to celebrate the Summer Solstice. This was a rare opportunity given nights out in finery are highly unusual nowadays, thanks both to my exhaustion levels and my usual uniform of soup-splattered dungarees, which is pretty much […]
There was a knock on The Mother-in-Law’s door this evening. A young man, donning a butchers apron and steaming in the balmy Bristol night, stood on the doorstep and asked – with chutzpah Oliver himself would be proud of – “Can I pick some of the elderflower from your drive?” Sadly for him I said, […]
