Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SILLY PET SELFIE
The Dark Lord accuses me of making everything about myself, which is true because I can’t believe I’m old enough to have a 17-year-old goddaughter.
The scrumptious aforementioned Molly turns 17 this week and I said to her mother, my best friend, Ali: “You might be old, but I’m not. You must have got your dates wrong with Mols.”
She sighed in that long-suffering way. “Yes I might have been a little pregnant when I walked down the aisle at our first wedding.”
Of course I am always there to help my friend remember the bits of her past she’d rather gloss over. “Er… I think you’ll find you waddled, not walked, down the nylon carpet in the register office,” I said helpfully.
“Yes, yes all right,” said Ali, getting mock irritated. “It was a miracle my waters didn’t break, otherwise Molly would have been a bridesmaid at her parents’ wedding, but that doesn’t mean I’d get my dates wrong by four years! Face it, you’re old.”
Obviously as a godmother I’m always very keen to offer Christian and moral guidance to Molly, so perhaps it’s no surprise that she has always preferred me to take her shopping for clothes for her birthday.
But I suspect I’m far too uncool for that now, so she’s coming over tomorrow for a godmother cooking lesson as she wants to know the secret of my ‘signature dish’, Chinese beef and green pepper stir fry. Actually I’d like to know too because I’ve lost my old recipe, so anything could happen.
But as her mother said: “All Molly would like for her birthday is time with you,” which is cruelly ironic these days, because my own daughter would like exactly the opposite.
But as I like to tell The Dark Lord, Molly’s got gazillions of ace GCSES and doesn’t glue her craft work to the bedroom carpet. Happy 17th, Molly! Love Your Fairy Godmother xxx
Email me at siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk or write to Community Corner, PO Box 791, Winchester SO23 3RP. “This is my Bengal kitten Vixen taking a much-needed nap. She can be very boisterous and runs around the house like her tail is on fire, but is also turning into a very loving pet,” says Linda Fitton from Middleton, Greater Manchester.
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