Once upon a time, a little girl was told that women shouldn’t fly airplanes … I grew up knowing ‘mum flew planes’. This was one of a series of simple facts in my childhood: my sister and I were born in London; our parents came from India; dad sang; mum flew. She told us stories…
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Ever fallen in love with a stray dog you shouldn’t have fallen in love with?
The pack of beach dogs that played in the glinting waves, trotted purposefully onshore and shook off their sea-drops. Heads high, they searched for shade, under hulls of fishing boats, behind the beach huts and beside the tyres of the lifeguard’s red jeep. One of the dogs was brown and fluffy, her fur was long…