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ALL ABOARD (Or … Not.)

My daughter is on a long train journey and sitting in the same carriage to her is a very drunken Manchester United supporter, singing at the top of his voice (I can hear him down the phoneline.) It reminded me of when I was seven years old and on a train with my mother and […]

Musical Chronology and Kitchen Roll

I’m in a big store hunting for household items. There’s a guy stacking the freezer section. He’s singing at the top of his voice in a faux Irish accent, whistling a fair bit, providing vocal percussion and every now and then doing a little jig whilst he stacks the freezer. His colleague looks utterly miserable […]

A Kitchen Sink Drama

(WARNING – I don’t come off particularly well in this blog) My husband does this thing when I’m in the kitchen with the kids. He sits in the living room upstairs and comments away about what we’re saying. When we tell him that he’s being nosey and listening-in on our conversation, he objects and says […]

Japes and Wheezes

During lockdown, on April 1st 2020, my kids rang their dad at work from the summer-house in our garden (where they were allegedly doing their home-schooling). They told him that they had behaved very badly and refused to do their school work – leading to a row with me. They said that I had stormed […]