Bitter-sweet is a good word Reed. And my sex-life hasn’t been that interesting really. This is a reflection on opportunities not taken up, as much as anything else.

A few years ago I was working in Munich and a higher-up boss-man asked how I was finding things. I said it was “entertaining”. He said “at least you didn’t say ‘interesting’; it took me five years to understand what the English mean when they say ‘interesting’.” I am not sure if he realised that what I meant by “entertaining” was “the work is difficult but I’m not going to complain about that because I am Terribly English, the good thing about it is that I like my colleagues”.

No reason for the order it’s written in, Teuchter. I think it is probably the order I wrote it in. It took a while to get it together. I tend to over-write and I wanted this to be as simple as possible.

Thanks to all for reading and commenting.

Aphra

Just wondering if there was any particular reason for putting the vignettes in the order you did?

And dang, but you’ve had an interesting sex-life *makes jealous face*.

Just think, if you’d gone the children-labrador-aga route you could almost be me, sitting here thinking about avenues that were never explored.

Sometimes I get wondery about the life I expected to have, (children, labradors, and lovely warm cooking ranges), but then I realise that I know the answer to the question that would have itched and itched and itched at me if I had led that life. The question being “what would I have done if I’d been calling my own shots?”

Dunno which life would have been better, but this version has almost certainly been the most interesting.

Aphra

Floots and Z, thank you very much for reading it and for commenting.