Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Low life | 2 October 2010

I thought I’d never see the day when Sharon would be content to spend a quiet hour with me looking at my holiday snaps on the laptop.

issue 02 October 2010

I thought I’d never see the day when Sharon would be content to spend a quiet hour with me looking at my holiday snaps on the laptop.

I thought I’d never see the day when Sharon would be content to spend a quiet hour with me looking at my holiday snaps on the laptop. Alcoholic nymphomaniacs, I suppose, must mellow over time like everybody else. Her interest was unflagging, even when we came to 50 pictures of the same three elephants enjoying themselves in the Shire river in Malawi. And when we got on to the ones I took of Madonna at a tree-planting ceremony near Lilongwe, she was avid. I’d completely forgotten I’d watched Madonna plant a tree last October, so I enjoyed seeing them as well.

The snaps had come about like this.

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