Every Christmas I remember a ticking-off from my late mother-in-law, an observant Roman Catholic, after I'd jeered at some celebrity for being as thick as brandy butter. Well, I can't pretend that I've always abided by my mother-in-law's stricture in newspaper columns I've written over the years. But bearing her lesson in mind, and in the spirit of Christmas peace …
Day nine since our burglary, which I described here last Friday, and the fallout continues. All week, we've been slamming stable doors like crazy: changing the locks; ordering a video doorbell; bolting windows and doors, top and bottom, then neurotically checking and re-checking them before bed; waking in the small hours, suddenly alert, with hearts thumping, at the faintest imagined …
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