Half-Truths & White Lies
“'Nothing stuffy,' she said, 'just a fish-and-chip supper in front of the telly. You won't even have to talk if you don't want to.' I had never been inside Lydia's house before and it amused me that it was so familiar and yet so different.
It was a little like being Alice in Wonderland. Nothing seemed to fit.
'That just about sums us up, doesn't it, Kevin?' Lydia joked, the cough only a short way behind. 'I always knew we lived in topsy-turvy land.' The house was littered with Kevin's 'invention...s', half-built projects and gadgets for everything you could think of and a lot more besides. Dad would have loved it. In fact, it was right up his street.
'I never even knew I needed my reacher-upper until he made it for me.' Lydia showed me a claw-like contraption for reaching things in the tall kitchen cupboards. 'But I was forever standing on chairs to get things. Then one day I came home and he said, "I've made this for you, Ma," and I thought, Well, he's noticed that all on his own without me asking.MoreLess
It was a little like being Alice in Wonderland. Nothing seemed to fit.
'That just about sums us up, doesn't it, Kevin?' Lydia joked, the cough only a short way behind. 'I always knew we lived in topsy-turvy land.' The house was littered with Kevin's 'invention...s', half-built projects and gadgets for everything you could think of and a lot more besides. Dad would have loved it. In fact, it was right up his street.
'I never even knew I needed my reacher-upper until he made it for me.' Lydia showed me a claw-like contraption for reaching things in the tall kitchen cupboards. 'But I was forever standing on chairs to get things. Then one day I came home and he said, "I've made this for you, Ma," and I thought, Well, he's noticed that all on his own without me asking.MoreLess
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