Thursday 16 August 2012

Cast and crown

On the day: 
15/08/2012 

On the way: 
She's a pretty little girl, wide-set blue eyes, blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail off her high forehead. Her T-shirt is white with a glittering polo player logo formed from shimmering studs, her leggings dove grey. 
All the energy of a, what,  ten-year-old, her chatter is fast and furious, Speedy Gonzales on triple espressos, and she is up and down from the seat opposite her mother to the seat next to her and back again. 
They're off to the hospital, perhaps to get the grubby pink cast on the girl's right forearm removed. But what about the shape of a crown inked behind and below her right earlobe? 
Surely that will come off with soap and water. 

On the pod: 
You Held The World In Your Arms - Idlewild  

On the front page: 
The blame for trains falls mainly on the trains (Metro)

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