Did you draw your shoe cartoon? “I did. It’s called “Shoe Heaven” and it’s up on the LoopdeLoop site as I speak.” Aren’t you a clever girl! Are they nice shoes? Can I see them? “Of course. Here they are.” “The endless cycle of desire. A pair of new shoes could make my life perfect.”
Do you know what I’d like to do now? “No. What?” Get out of this tent you built us. “Oh me too. It’s really dreadful, Mum.” Well let’s go then, dear. What’s to stop us? “Absolutely nothing. You’re right. Let’s do it.”
“Finally, you enter a big department store’s fabric sale. Feeling very tired, you offer up a little prayer. And my sister unearths a roll of linen … … with a butter yellow background, birds, flowers in coral, a little pink frog or two … and leaves the exact colour of your carpet … The moment of truth is that you need 11 metres and there are just…
“My sister goes off to buy the curtain material you have set your heart on but someone else has bought it. All 36 yards of it…. you write that you “could weep”. “And when she suggests you come with her and your granddaughter on a trip to the nearest big city one hundred miles away, your first reaction…
“Your letter to me is dated February.” “It’s very cold outside and you look at your curtains, thinking – “life is passing me by and I can’t stand them any longer”. My sister brings you a sample of fabric from the nearest town – “Butter yellow linen with peonies” – just what you want.” “You…
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