Learning To Swim

by Clare Chambers

butcher’s and the greengrocer’s has been conducted in silence, and

I’d be no use to anyone in an emergency if I don’t drive.’ ‘You’ll probably be the emergency

orchestra pit was playing ‘Greensleeves’ on

liquorice pipes – as if we were eight-year-olds.

mother. It was, of course, perfectly

with drawing-pin holes and tiny

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