Gathering the troops for family meetings used to be hard. You get one to the table then they’ve disappeared when you get back with the other. Not anymore: For instant family gatherings, with everyone – including Cecilia – crowded round the router with a WTF look on their faces, just switch off the wifi.
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Early mornings
Are not young people’s best. It’s not just Christmas when ‘all through the house; not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;’ All non-school mornings no mice doth stirreth.
I get up n about early and all is dead quiet. To use another Free State Reed-ism ‘not a leaf stirred, not a dog stirred’ (geddit?*).
They lie low as I pad up and down the passage. Even if I stick my lips at the door crack and ask, ‘You Awake?’ not a peep.
Until I walk past with shoes on. Then it’s instantly ‘Where’re you going?’
That’s FOMO. Cos you may be going somewhere interesting
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- . . not a dog’s turd – This Reed-ism is best orally and aurally, not so good in print.
- FOMO – fear o’ missing oot
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