While I was pegging out the washing, I heard the next door neighbour turn the air blue with a stream of four-letter words that would have Chubby Brown blushing.
My two sons and I are separated, all told, by a few thousand miles. One is studying Geography in Liverpool while the other has gone travelling and last week ended up in - of all places - Bangkok.
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