She had put a daffodowndilly behind each ear, and twisted a dandelion chain around her neck.

They videoed his death instead of helping him.

Between properties, we stopped off for tea with my grandmother and my aunt, and my mother produced her stash of floor plans like enemy intelligence: ‘Have a stickybeak at this!’

Truth is I was the kind of fellow who people would run away from when they seen me coming on account of I was so full of facts and names and places and families I had to tell about.