Chocolate face
My day began at 6.30am in new money, when a little voice said, “Grandma, please can you check and see what time it is?” Luckily my alarm clock is radio controlled and resets automatically when the clocks change, so I … Continued
Christmas Day
Time was when I’d have been on the receiving end of a strop for pointing a camera at my son, but these days he’s as chilled as you’d expect a jazz musician to be, even when I accost him pre-breakfast. … Continued
Absolute unit
I was practising some Haydn in advance of a choir rehearsal – an assertion that might surprise anyone who had the bad luck to be sitting in my vicinity later in the evening – when R arrived at my desk, … Continued
Subversive
11.38am. Eight hours and eighteen minutes into my day. Round 291 of hide ‘n’ seek. This child is so very bright that I can’t help but suspect that he understands the rules of hide ‘n’ seek perfectly well, and has … Continued
