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Aida Austin

“Pretty is out of fashion, it’s all about being hot”

HOME, 2pm. My mother is in the conservatory, in combative form.

Sun, 26 Jan, 2014

“You mustn’t think about Nosferatu, not now”

I’M GOING to tell you a story. Similar plot line to “The Engine That Could”.

Sun, 19 Jan, 2014

“I found pine needles in my knickers last night”

HOME, Jan 4, and I’m trying to take down the Christmas tree.

Sun, 12 Jan, 2014

“We bonded over the jump-leads, you could say”

WE got to know our 20-year-old neighbour J well before he moved up to Sligo for the surf.

Sun, 05 Jan, 2014

“It’s not like you’re going over the top in the Somme”

I MEAN, seriously? What’s it all about? First there’s the shopping.

Sun, 29 Dec, 2013

“Where are you off to looking so shifty?”

IT is time to buy our Christmas tree.

Sun, 22 Dec, 2013

“Our heads are the last bastions of privacy”

MIDNIGHT, in bed. I’m random-googling on my laptop, while my husband turns the pages of his book with peevish flicks and martyred air.

Sun, 15 Dec, 2013

“I tell you, I’d give my leg for a game like Monopoly”

MY HUSBAND has thought up a brand new family game for us all to play together on these cold, wintry evenings.

Sun, 08 Dec, 2013

“Booked something,” I squeak, “what have you booked?”

IT IS the morning of our 27th wedding anniversary. We’re exchanging gifts upstairs, in last-minute fashion before my husband leaves for work.

Sun, 01 Dec, 2013

“It’s not like the time he said ‘the truth of the pudding’”

IT’S 8.30pm, and the inaugural visit to our daughter in Barcelona is under way. My husband and I have walked around the city for seven hours straight.

Sun, 24 Nov, 2013