On The Kitchen Table

Don't forget to ring school

Tish lunch money

Pack some clothes and pj's and I will get the toothbrushes

Hang out the washing

Hairbrush, cream, aspirin

I will be back around 2, don't burn the house down

don't forget eardrops

Mum can you look for my phones, can't find them

See you about 11

All the animals need cleaning out!!!

Someone feed the cat when she turns up

Washing needs hanging out

Shopping: plasters, cocoa

Hi, I will be late laat M x

Tish lunch money

Ring council

Phone theatre

We have your children ....

Check you have your ticket and railcard

Need more FFW cos I ran out and will die if I don't have any

Jake we will pick you up at 4.30 ish

Bedding in the machine

Dunk, get milk

lunch money for Tish

mum record survivors for me

gone voting, be back soon Tish/Jake

Washing in the machine - please hang up (this means you)

Everyone in our house comes and goes at different times so we have a pad for messages on the kitchen table. The pages are all covered in scrawl now so I was about to throw it in the recycle bin, when I realised it was a lovely record of recent ordinary family life. Sometimes I miss my children being small and being around me all the time but seen like this I like the new independence that they have and how they mostly want such small things from me. The "we have your children line..." is meant to be a little cryptic, it was from a little something we did with the visitors in May (No children were harmed in the making of this film, the characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character and history of any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and unintentional.)