Janssen Stand Down!
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Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
It is not a stroke of luck to be born where you were born. Everybody knows that. Think about it.
He sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want to go home where all his relatives would have arrived in black, coughing into sandwiches and mini sausage rolls. They’d try tell him stories about his dad, pretending they knew his dad better than they did.
Kathleen and me had been up late talking. She talked about babies and I talked, through a bit of beer, about getting away, going abroad before babies. Getting away.