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Low life

The joys of home and hearth and hot lemon

You can keep your coke at £90 a gram. All I was interested in inhaling this Christmas and New Year was a £2.50 tub of Vicks

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

Over Christmas and New Year I was rotten with flu and didn’t go out once. I stayed soberly at home beside the fire with the family and enjoyed every minute. The first time I ventured out, still feeling ropy, was on Saturday morning for a look around the shops. As I came out of Superdrug, I met Sasha.

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