Funny fragments:

• Travelling in the back of the car along the shores of Lake Windermere listening to the two butch women in the front arguing about Joan Armatrading, and working out how to persuade them to get back onto the M6 and northbound to Edinburgh.
• Urging my father to hurry, otherwise my sister J and I, both ready to set off in our brown and blue Teesside High School uniforms, would miss the school bus from Hartburn to Eaglescliffe.
• Learning that GT had given away one baby and begged her mother to adopt the other.