Betty was refused bail on grounds that she posed an extreme risk to the general public.”
She was, quite simply, a nice lady who’d raised a family and now lived quietly with her cats and grew vegetables.
This was both nothing and everything. “Does your sister help out with your mother, Raymond?” I asked.
He was grappling with the duvet and I took it from him.
There is a knack to such things. Raymond is a man without the knack.
He put on the pillowcases (flowers, ruffles) instead.
“Nah,” he said, concentrating. “She’s got two kids, and they’re a bit of a handful.
Mark works offshore, so she’s a single parent for weeks at a time, really. It’s not easy.
It’ll be better when the kids are at school, she says.” “Ah,” I said.
“Do you—do you enjoy being an uncle, then?” Uncle Raymond: a somewhat unlikely role model, I felt.
He shrugged. “Yeah, they’re good fun. There’s not much to it, to be honest; I just slip them some cash at Christmas and birthdays,
take them to the park a couple of times a month. Job done.”
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