Tipping Sodical

It was dark when I left the house with Barney this morning, but the sky was clear and the stars were bright points of light overhead. Orion was standing proud over the woods, but there were no attack ships on fire off his shoulder that I could see. It was cold - not too long before the frosts
start to bite, I reckon.

An early start, and Alicia was at her very best - looking for homework, PE bag, trainers to go in said PE bag and her favourite necklace (an obvious essential item when we are in a rush) before we finally got out of the door and into the car. We were half way to school when she told me that she had forgotten her purse.

"Hmmm. You know when I asked you last night if you had packed your bag, and made sure that you'd got everything and you told me you had, you hadn't actually checked?"

She raided my spare change for the bus and went to wait at the bus stop whilst I set off back for the motorway. She rang to tell me that she had found her purse at more or less the same time that I realised that I hadn't packed my laptop in the boot ...