‘Well what does that prove? Me and Bert had one bed but we did nothing in it.’ Doreen said that was all very well, but two women were different. Different from what? I wondered from inside the dustbin. ‘Well your Jane can go to university and move away, she’s clever.’ ‘Frank won’t put up with that, he wants grandchildren, and if I don’t get a move on there’ll be no dinner for him and he’ll be back with pie and peas in the pub. I don’t want to give him an excuse.’
