📚 Two stories 📚

Hey there, lovely people!I went to a neighbour's party last weekend. I've lived on this street for 27 years and this was only the second one I've been to. In that time, older people have moved away and families have moved in. There are more young children here than I can remember in nearly three decades and certainly more than when my children were little.

An ice cream van came around the weekend before – another near-first. We live at the top of a very long, very steep hill (the kind you pray ...