Chapter 104 · Month 45 · Starting a Family

The Long Walk

The first morning with no plan and nothing to organise

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            Penny
            teacher
            07:46
          
There's nothing on the list for today — I've written "walk" and nothing under it, which is either progress or a cry for help. We're heading past the park gate anyway, so say the awkward bit before I start organising the air.

            Algy
            designer
            07:47
          
The awkward bit is I bought the test with a bag of dishwasher tablets, and the woman at the till said nothing, which was somehow worse. So: a walk with no plan, and I'm not steering it — but I'll say mine.

            Penny
            teacher
            07:48
          
Dishwasher tablets — so at least one thing in that bag gets used this week. What I want, plainly: do you want a baby, or do you want to stop disappointing me every month?

            Algy
            designer
            07:50
          
A baby — and the disappointing-you bit is the part I can't do anything about with a plan, so I keep joking instead. We've walked past the gate; let's go round the long way and neither of us check the phone till the duck pond.

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