Lily Alone (2011)
“Then we sat down amongst the ferns, Pixie in her buggy like a queen on a throne, and had a feast of biscuits and Dairylea and cornflakes and Lilt and Coke. We passed the strawberry jam round too, each of us scooping out a handful. Pixie got especially sticky but I spat on a T-shirt and scrubbed her as best I could.
Then I got out our fairy-tale book and read aloud Babes in the Wood, Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood, all stories we could imagine happening in the trees around us. Blis...s imagined all too vividly, and hung on tight to Headless while phantom wicked stepmothers and witches and wolves crept up on her. I had to read all the way through her favourite Cinderella to calm her down. Baxter chuntered a little, but settled to listen, absent-mindedly spinning the wheels of his fork-lift truck. Pixie started rubbing her eyes and sucking her thumb.
I supervised a little trip behind a bush and then lifted her up into our tree, sitting her on top of a pillow, with another for her head.MoreLess
Then I got out our fairy-tale book and read aloud Babes in the Wood, Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood, all stories we could imagine happening in the trees around us. Blis...s imagined all too vividly, and hung on tight to Headless while phantom wicked stepmothers and witches and wolves crept up on her. I had to read all the way through her favourite Cinderella to calm her down. Baxter chuntered a little, but settled to listen, absent-mindedly spinning the wheels of his fork-lift truck. Pixie started rubbing her eyes and sucking her thumb.
I supervised a little trip behind a bush and then lifted her up into our tree, sitting her on top of a pillow, with another for her head.MoreLess
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