December 2008


Well the bus was quite busy and the kid got on first and went towards the back of the bus. then she got on with the pushchair and was shouting ‘Callum, sit down!!’ which he was trying to do at the back of the bus!! So he came back down the bus towards her and didn’t know where to sit cos there was no space. During this time she’s told him to sit down at least 4 times. Then she pointed to a seat and said, ‘Here, you sit down there’ so the kid sat down and she dragged him up and said, ‘Not you! Let this man sit down there, you go and sit there’ and pointed to a seat at the back of the bus!!!!!

She stayed near the front where there’s more space for prams etc.
Poor kid. He wasn’t upset by it though, just took it all in his stride. Then she passed him his book bag and shouted at him for opening it. Then she had to keep shouting down the bus for him to shut up cos he was making singing noises.
When they were getting off (at my stop), she stood up off one of those fold down seats and it made a big squeaking noise and Callum goes, ‘Ugh, Muuuuummm!!!!’ , ‘Mother! Was that you?!’ hahahah. She wasn’t impressed.

This bloke that had on a long leather ‘matrix’ coat sat next to me for the last bit of the trip in. We were just getting to St Marys Butts when he sneezed into his hands…and then looked. GROSS. Doesn’t he know you’re suposed to just discretely wipe them on your trousers and hope there were no bogies?

My new book is good. It’s about this woman who runs a vegetarian cafe in Bath. She’s preggers but doens’t realise yet and her boyfriend is away travelling for a year.