Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 23 February 2017

Although nowadays I would be more accurately described as ‘expectedly re-unavailable’

issue 25 February 2017

Unexpectedly re-available is a very good phrase. I have often seen it applied to house advertisements and thought how fabulously impertinent it sounds, so I am asking the agents to attach it to the description of my flat now that it is back on the market after a right old hoo-ha with the buyer from hell.

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