“Tanya, it’s Seb,” Mum calls through the bathroom door. “Where?” I shout. “On the phone,” Mum calls. “On my way,” I shout, hauling myself out of the bath, pulling my towel round me. “So, the thing about garden birds is that they’re an artificially sustained population,” Mum is saying into the phone when I make […]
“What a sport: tennis,” Fabrice Santoro says, sighing. Whilst I was meditating and sleeping, Tsonga won the first two sets and was just about to win the match when Berdych somehow wrestled the tie-break off him, took the third set and is now in the ascendant: 3 – 1 up in the third set. Tsonga […]
“What a beautiful person he is! Happy day?xxx” At the theatre, I’ve turned my phone on during the interval, and can see Seb’s message. The ‘beautiful person’ referred to is, of course, the fluffy monster. Sent Seb a couple of fluffy-monster-photos earlier in the day. Can’t reply though because in the ten minutes before the start of […]
Scars, Tears and Training Bras 