Issue 140

..she was still only ninety-six this was still a source of on-going annoyance. In her later years she had been persuaded to give up driving half the length of the North Island to visit my mother after she revealed that she was constantly worried that she would not be able to pick up a hitch-hiker…

..live on stage accompanying the movie and we’d arrived far too early. I was idly fiddling with my phone when Maria nudged me. ‘Isn’t that Julia Zemiro?’ she whispered – and then had to repeat the question because the ambient foyer-noise defeated my well-meaning but quite ineffectual hearing aids. I had to do a double…

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Manners certainly didn’t apply in these fraternal disputes. I suppose there had to be some release from perpetually polite behaviour – we were lads after all – but our constant bickering eventually led to our having to be separated and given our own bedrooms. Of course I got the better bedroom and Richard was consigned…

..for somebody who is not my uncle, my aunt or my uncle’s client. I have friends who have permanently separated but still go out together, even sleep together, although presumably only on cold nights. It all seems very modern and, as divorce impacts at least a third of all marriages, nothing unusual. It may be…