Chapter Ten
Redundancy
A new beginning often leads to the “same old” ending.
When Mum received her redundancy money, she installed a wet room with piped music, claiming that the only thing better than a hot shower was a hot shower to Jimmy Shan blaring.
George didn’t argue.
Instead, he encouraged her to explore her other talents, and when she saw a storyteller in the library, inspiration hit her. She watched a thin Dutch man telling stories of goblins and mice and declared she had “found her calling” and would “just need a lift to the library.”
Mum began searching through books for stories, embellishing where she saw fit. Finally, inspired by Halloween, she came up with a pumpkin that refused to be cut, grew legs after midnight, and ran from the kitchen . . . along with her standard
