Sunday 10th SeptemberWe are in for a quiet day. On Sundays, if we don’t get to see the kids, I phone them, then tell Humps their news. We have a tendency to think they get things wrong, but we let them get on with it. Humps is against interfering in their lives. If it hadn’t been for him, I think I would have waded in with unwanted advice and probably ruined our relationship with them. News was mostly the progress of little Benjamin. How he’s added new words to his vocabulary. He is saying ‘mama’ and ‘dada,’ and pointing with determination when he wants something. After the Bella-Rosa episode, I feel I need to speak to Susi, too. I’ll phone her and see when we can meet. I don’t want to discuss this on the phone with Humps in the house. “Hi, Mary.” “Hi, Susi. How are you getting on with

