Properly hot, and weekend, and shoes off, and a ukulele Christmas DVD put to bed. Time to peel off the ivy from the shed, and empty its contents onto the lawn to put it back again in the right order. And at 37˚, the pond starts to bubble over. Fish slithers over fish, chasing their […]

A day of delights, a day for keeps. Friday, and a concocted tale of fatigue and vague illness to deflect the attentions of the school, and—above all, following a late school concert the evening before, which included an epileptic episode in the audience that meant evacuating the hall and as a result Dex wasn’t in […]