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(Our trip to Glastonbury) The roof of our van leaks The fridge doesn’t work We have one ring working on the gas cooker I start my period as we drive in the gates It rains torrential rain You know that word torrential now And you like me to say it again and again. We’re atContinue reading “Remembering Summertime Adventures”

How many conversations can I have while I walk down the never ending stream of parents at pick up. Moving with the ebb and flow of the tide of tired children hot on my heels, eager to get home. There is no time for Hello how are you How is work going, oh what doContinue reading “Say It In Three”

‘Do you want to be buried or burnt’ You ask me at dinner You could have asked when we were driving When I could get away with being distracted ‘Probably burnt but remember I’d be dead already, I wouldn’t be alive’ But now have you got an image of me being burnt alive… ‘Bodies getContinue reading “Dinnertime Chat”