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Aida Austin
“Every car you’ve ever driven has been filthy”

MY SISTER — resolutely urban and under-whelmed by country life — has arrived from London.

Sat, 24 Mar, 2012

“I can see spiders in the back of your mouth”

A FRIEND approaches me outside the bank. When I ask after his little daughter, he says that she’s been refusing to brush her teeth.

Sat, 10 Mar, 2012

“Someone has hitched my horse-box to their car”

WE FOUND a bunch of old pony tack when we cleaned out the shed this week.

Sat, 03 Mar, 2012

“Oh my god... you put Play-doh in your ears”

I’M VISITING my youngest sister.

Sat, 25 Feb, 2012

“Do you think my hair looks a bit orange?”

MY sister-in-law and I are reading the newspapers in companionable quiet at the kitchen table.

Sat, 18 Feb, 2012

“The banality is stretching the limits of my credulity”

IT IS midnight and my husband and I are sitting at the kitchen table.

Sat, 11 Feb, 2012

“What do you mean I look like a hooker?”

MY sister in law is full of good ideas about how to make a fortune.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2012

“See that woman... she talks to dogs”

MY sister, who is two glasses of Pinot down, has just introduced me as someone who ‘lives in the back arse of nowhere’ to an acquaintance of hers at a party in London, just before whisking off to get herself a refill.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2012

“My holiday memories are a bit stuck on quite dreadful”

AS USUAL this January, I didn’t start to think of myself as a to-do list and race around at warp speed, signing up for pilates and beginner’s Italian.

Sat, 21 Jan, 2012

“The penguins have got it pretty good”

WE HAVE watched David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet.

Sat, 14 Jan, 2012

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