Complete Lack of Imagination

Yesterday I

Those were the words with which we had to begin.

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The Time of his Life

At first Malcolm had not enjoyed his retirement much.When the department asked for volunteers to retire early he’d been over the moon. At supper that evening, he excitedly told Harriet.

Mental Health Day

Yesterday I threw a sickie, or what my friend used to call a Mental Health Day.

A Night at the Opera

Maria’s manicured hand reaches for his as the lights go down. It’s the night of her birthday treat. ‘Let’s do something special’, she’d said. She was fed up of getting pissed down the pub or in front of the telly.

Human Discourse

‘All of you! Your money was built on slavery.

‘Everyone knows I am right.

‘And anyone who thinks I am not is a racist.’

Long Forgotten Letters

My son came into my study where I was sitting feeling tearful. He set about tidying up my things. He often does this. He is a much more organised person than I am and likes systems and applying them. Left to his own devices he would arrange the contents of my fridge into alphabetical order.

Fat is a Feminist Issue

All my adult life I think I have had this book on my shelf, in fact I think as a child it was on my mother’s (hmm). I may even have read it when younger and only thinking I was fat or hugely overweight. I don’t remember what it says.