The List

Isobel found an old receipt from the Post Office and had scribbled on the back of it. She told me it was a list of all the things she needed to make her room beautiful. According to her, the list included "Four FO-KAYS and a beautiful picture for the wall". (A FO-KAY is a bouquet of flowers.)

I took the list and read it aloud, telling her that it also said she needed, "a battery for the Dora clock, to clean up the mess on the floor and to hang the family picture on the wall."

She seemed disgusted at my suggestions and then, all of a sudden, she said (somewhat exasperatedly), "You can't even READ SQUIGGLES!"

I guess she's right. I can't!