Wednesday 16 April 2014

Heartbroken

Tonight I enjoyed a lovely supper at The Bowler's Arms in Wash Common with the Family Brown, commenting that I am just eight days away from the 24th anniversary of my arrival in the UK, when my daughter asks "Dad, when you lived in New Zealand, did you have a Kiwi accent?"

If she wasn't so young she'd have got a four letter response followed by "off".
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