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| Carenza, Lila and Hannah |
Just this time last year, Perran and Carenza’s A level
results came out. Suddenly it was the
end of suspended animation. At last
Perran and Carenza knew where they were going to study and where they would be
living. I felt like I had a licence to
go out and by duvets, desk lamps and waste paper bins.
It seems so much more than a year ago that the twins got
their results. In fact, it appears to
have been a full generation ago – Carenza now has sons and daughters. These are her “college children”. Second year undergraduates, are assigned
freshers to support with helpful advice (and presumably hangover cures).
Carenza herself, when she was a new college daughter emailed a
question which caused her college parents some confusion:
“Will I need to de-fur my kettle?”
De-furring kettles is an everyday problem in the hard-water
area in which we live. However, her college
parents were not familiar with the challenge of hard water so Carenza’s query caused some consternation, especially
when they shared it with lots of their fellow undergraduates. People still mention the furry kettle today...
I wonder what unexpected questions Carenza’s college
children will ask her.
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