I think I would be a good mother; I just don’t want to be one.

I think I would be a good mother. I just don’t want to be one. Maybe I’ll change my mind. (You don’t know. People change. You might change your mind.)

I WAS what one might call an ‘intense’ child, prone to crying fits over the long-term damage the greenhouse effect was inflicting upon the planet, and a six-month obsession with Satan and His Desire To Tempt Me Into Sin after getting a missile bible for my ninth birthday.

I also spent a great deal of time alone reading poetry (you’re right! I didn’t have many friends. However did you guess?) and I think I was about 11 when I first read Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse.