‘Farewell then, little lodger. I wish you would stay for ever but I understand that girls in their early twenties meet boys and go off to live with them in flatshares in Tooting.
I had such a soft spot for her, the builder boyfriend nicknamed her ‘mini-me’.
I taught her to ride and would pull her behind me on Grace like a duckling.
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