Alex James

Slow Life | 12 July 2008

Highland fling

issue 12 July 2008

I wasn’t planning to take the family on holiday. We live on a farm and there’s always something happening. It gets harder and harder to drag oneself away. Claire got quite indignant about having missed the strawberries when we arrived home today. There were only a few soggy ones left.

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