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One Year At A Time - Year 1

ONE YEAR AT A TIME - YEAR 1 January A quiet New Year, enlivened mid-month by news from Abigail’s school that she’d accidentally and inadvertently almost set fire to the laboratory during a Chemistry assignment. She’s only 14! Not sure whether to be proud or concerned. Authorities understandably not overly impressed. But it’s their fault for providing a wide number of chemicals for her to experiment with and allowing students to undertake research online. As per, I ticked off the Christmas cards received against my list of those sent. There will be a number of deletions made before the end of the year. I don’t know why I bother to send a card to my sister. She never reciprocates. Ignorant cow. February ‘Trixie the cat pongs awful’, shouted Reggie (3) to me whilst he was cleaning his teeth after celebrating Pancake Tuesday. He was right about the smell but, having inspected Trixie, I just couldn’t work out where it was coming from. It certainly wasn’t her. I checked very carefu
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Lockdown Blues - Sometimes Mother Doesn't Know Best

  Sharon had known Mikey long enough to remember the shape of the unusual mole on the left cheek of his bottom. They’d been ‘an item’ for more than seven months now, having met through mutual friends at a party. The relationship was going well. They’d been on holiday together and discovered they could actually stand each other’s’ company for more than a few hours every weekend. The sex was improving now they understood each other better. Their friends believed it was only a matter of time before they moved in together. Mikey shared a flat with Jimmy. It was an arrangement that suited both parties well. Now Mikey was loved up with Sharon, Jimmy had offered to vacate the flat on Saturday nights to allow the couple some space to improvise, experiment and then recover gradually. In truth, Jimmy couldn’t have been happier with how this had panned out because it gave him the opportunity to persuade his regular weekend partner Gary to let him stay over. Gary’s place had many more mod cons t
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The Elegant Lady

  If it wasn’t for the dog, there is every possibility you would miss the elegantly dressed lady sat in the coffee shop. She drinks there most weekdays, occupying the same table at roughly the same time. It is away from where much of the action happens by choice, and has absolutely nothing to do with current social distancing requirements. Simply put, she enjoys coffee but doesn’t like talking to strangers. Unfortunately, it is also on the quickest route to the now reduced toilet facilities, which is where the dog comes into its own. Kenneth, for that is the dog’s name, doesn’t take kindly to anyone getting too close to his mistress. If someone does, he growls quite loudly and for an impressively long time without seeming to take a breath. His mistress encourages this behaviour. It works on 75% of the passing customers, who scuttle away thinking the dog is an untrained disgrace and shouldn’t be allowed in the place, but there’s always one who for whatever reason is oblivious to the t
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