Real life
The girl in the posh soap shop put her right arm out, palm flat in my face, and shouted: ‘Stand…
Real life
‘I can’t put it off any longer. She’s dying and I don’t think I can ignore the inevitable. We’ve got…
Real life
‘Please be aware there is now a Covid surcharge,’ I told the builder boyfriend one morning, as we discussed the…
Real life
The pile of fly-tipping was dumped in the night as usual, right against the five bar gate. I arrived to…
Real life
The Volkswagen Passat was parked next to my field gate, sticking out into the lane, blocking larger vehicles from getting…
Real life
Every time I get on a horse I have to face the likelihood that a dog, or pack of dogs,…
Real life
A man without a mask appeared to be dying of Covid, or something quite like it, on the London to…
Real life
Always the National Trust sticker. It feels like every time a car parks across the gateway to my horses’ field…
Real Life
After driving around the hospital grounds in concentric circles until I was surely down a wormhole, I found the scanning…
Real life
‘Hallo! You was callin’ us about appoint…MENT!’ said the lady at the scanning unit of my local hospital in broken…
Real life
We have beans, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, butternut squash, plums and strawberries growing in our garden. I dug up and replanted…
Real life
The whole of Surrey and south-west London seem to have gone abroad on holiday so I’ve got my sanity back.…
Real life
From my seat in the greasy spoon café I looked out on a typical English row of shops on a…
Real life
‘I need an ambulance!’ yelled the builder boyfriend into his mobile phone as the cyclist lay bleeding from a head…
Real life
‘What are you going to put on my head to protect me?’ said the man outside the barber’s shop to…
Real life
‘Are you seriously telling me you would rather meet up on Zoom than in reality?’ I asked a friend as…
Real Life
My friend turned up wearing a snorkelling mask, beneath which she had tied a bandana around her mouth. On her…
Real life
‘Have you met the man who keeps his horses in this field?’ said one silver-haired lady to the other, as…
Real life
Opting out of organ donation was one of the hardest things I’ve done in a while. I don’t mean the…
Real life
The two horses looked like they had never seen anything like it. They had wound up in a dark car…
Real life
We went on our first outing, to the beach at Littlehampton, but I’m not sure it was as stress-relieving as…
Garden leave
It’s hell when the whole neighbourhood is working from home
Real life
We arrived at the country store with only three minutes to closing time so our chances of scoring horse wormer…
Real life
When people ask me what I did during lockdown, I would like to give an inspiring answer, apart from growing…
Real life
If this lockdown doesn’t end soon we are all going to turn into hairy lefties. I have just cut the…
