“Seventeen degrees,” Dad says, looking at the temperature gauge in the car when he picks me up from the station at lunchtime today. “It’s a warm day. It’s much colder than that in our house. And we’ve got a new leak in the roof.” “Whereabouts is the leak?” I say. “It’s in a new place,” […]
The train chugs out of the city. It’s busy in the Quiet Carriage and, it must be said, not quiet. All around me there are sounds: whispering, coughing and spluttering, the rustle of newspapers. People begin to settle and the sounds fade. Have stuffed Little Suitcase to bursting and yet am still wearing a coat, […]
The door creaks open in the silent darkness. A huge fluffy monster squeezes through and pads across the floor. He bends down, shoves his face into the bowl and crunch crunch crunches his way through some food. I’m sort-of awake. As the loud crunching happens, I wake up a bit more. Drenched in sweat, I […]
On bike at gym. It’s 3.25pm and I’m gazing out of the window at the blue sky. Am sweating and uncomfortably warm, from the Zolodex. It causes hot flushes apparently. “It’s the Nocebo Effect,” MadFatRunner says when I call her to grumble about being hot in the night. “The what?” I […]
