I sat there with the hazards on and cried the way you cry when something you have been carrying at arm’s length for two years finally has to be set down, and then I called my sister and said, “Take the shop.

Do whatever you want and I mean it and I’m never going to say another word about it.”

The Doorframe

The order expired on the fourteenth of November, and absolutely nothing happened.

No card.

No call.