they said we could have it all… they just didn't tell us how.
’Twas the night before Christmas, in brisk cold of London, Blu wanders from her home in South Kensington enjoying the stillness of the night. She loves the cold, loves staying out in it, the sharpness and the chill that makes one want to snuggle a little deeper and closer. Winter is her favourite season, a…
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This week in church the gospel centred around the birth of Jesus in a manger, specifically the visit of the three wise men… were there three or did they just bring three gifts? The priest told a rather funny story, where he put a different spin on things; was Mary given the receipt of the…
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The phone vibrates for the one hundredth time, quite literally, for the one hundredth time it is Francesca and for the one hundredth time Blu does not answer. Franny left messages, grovelling voice messages pleading with Blu to forgive her. Dada, Maya and Simi called too all asking her to forgive Franny but Blu is…
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‘Hey. What’s up?’ Logan is surprised to see his brother at the door. Brodie didn’t tell him he was coming. ‘Sorry to show up unannounced.’ ‘Brodie are you okay?’ Logan can read Brodie, he is trying to disguise his agitation. ‘Are Jojo and the kids here?’ ‘No they went to her parent’s for the weekend.…
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Brodie woke up before the house hold, he’d slept in the smaller living room, or tried to, the boys made up a bed for him, but he didn’t get much sleep. The fight between Francesca and Blu kept playing in his head, and all he could see was how hurt Blu was by whatever it…
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‘Wha…what are you…what the fuck are you doing here?’ Roland just walked into the kitchen to see Brodie sitting at the counter, looking out the window into the snow filled landscape. ‘Morning.’ Brodie smiles at his friend, Roland’s face is just as he pictured it would be. ‘You are a fucking crazy man!’ both of…
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‘Blu Braithwaite, I’m in love with you.’ It was the first thing Brodie thought to himself on the morning after their first night together. They’d been talking over the phone for at least two months, with such busy schedules since the first “date” in her office, eating Chinese opposite each other, they hadn’t been able…
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‘Dad did you and mum love each other?’ Brodie is having dinner with his father tonight, just the two of them. Thomas has seen the hullaballoo surrounding his son’s love life, and of course, witnessed the debacle at his wedding in the autumn. He really liked Blu, she is the first woman to have made…
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‘All I want for Christmas is you!!!! You…oo…ou babyyy!’ Blu is sure she is in hell, this the only way to describe this car journey with her friends who decided to ambush her this morning, they literally packed her bags and Dada threatened to bathe her if she didn’t do it herself. They were forcing…
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