Once you have children you lose your identity, suddenly becoming, 'this is my mum' then 'this is my grandma.' He hum I cough politely and smiling I hold out my hand, 'Hi I am Sue.' 'Oh yeah,' my offspring mutter, as though surprised that I exist in some other form, or ever dared to have another form before becoming their mother/grandma. The other day a man approached with a lady by his side and said, 'Hi Sue, this is my wife,' leaving me to ask her what her name was, on the assumption that it wasn't 'wife'. Vaguely on the same subject, Trump, while giving evidence in one of his numerous investigations against him, confused the woman he sexually abused with his first wife, and last week he thought Nicky Haley, who is running against him in the Republican party, with Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House. Nicky is 52 and Nancy is in her 80s but then I suppose all women over the age of 25 look the same to him. ...
Life is too short to succumb to the seriousness of it all so this blog will simply be about the absurdities that we encounter every day. Watch this space.