No, really!
As she stood
your true-life tales
in the drive
unloading our shopping,
› I visited a friend recently and
my mother looked at the
my niece came home
noticed a couple of bottles of cider on
sky and remarked, “Ooh,
with her school project,
the table. Unusual, I thought. I didn’t think
half a moon.”
a beautiful autumnal leaf with
she liked it.
From the other side of
She explained that it was to help with
the words “I am thankful for my
the high hedge came an
her circulatory problems. A friend of a
mummy” printed on it.
unseen woman’s voice.
friend had been found to have unusually
Welling up, my sister said, “This
“Good afternoon to you
clear arteries after he died and this was
means so much to me.”
too,” she said.
put down to him drinking large amounts Her daughter nodded. “I wanted
Sally Fay-George,
of cider every day. to put ‘Hannah Montana’, but my
Moreton-in-Marsh,
I was intrigued. “What did he die of?”
teacher wouldn’t let me.” Gloucestershire
“His liver was shot,” replied my friend.
Kerrianne Wolfe
C Baker, Ledbury, Herefordshire
› After I applied for
It was the fourth time my mother-in-law had taken her
jobs at both a library
driving test and the family had been teasing her constantly
One SundAy, I fOund and a shoe shop, my
about her repeated failures.
mySelf SIttIng next husband said he hoped
The test centre was at the top of a hill in our busy local
tO the vIcAr in church that I’d get the one at
town centre, so, on the examiner’s command, my mother-
as he wasn’t leading that the shop.
in-law carefully checked her rear-view mirror, indicated
particular service. I was “It would be nice
right, looked over her right shoulder, checked the mirror
a new member of the to have employee
again, released the handbrake and manoeuvred away from
congregation, so he was discounts on shoes,”
the kerb.
keen to get me involved he explained.
This is going brilliantly, she thought to herself as the car
in local activities. Then, without
glided effortlessly down the road.
“The choir is always thinking, he added,
Her elation was short-lived. “Well done, Mrs Davies,” said
looking for members,” “Of course, if you get
the examiner, “But don’t you think it would be
he said encouragingly. the job at the library,
a good idea to turn the engine on at some
“I shall be listening to we’ll get free books.”
stage?” Vanda Davies, Worcester
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turned to me and smiled,
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awards. Beneath one photo, the caption read, ‘This year’s
interested in joining the Perfect Attendance Awards go to Ann Stein and Bradley
tea rota?” Suzie Jones,
Jenkins. Not present for photo: Bradley Jenkins.’
Heswall, Merseyside
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