SEVERED DOWN THE MIDDLE

It cannot possibly be a good start to the day to sever a “maialino” in half, using Robi and Nathalie’s postcard of Morocco, by mistake… It was walking across the floor past the bedroom door, in the direction of the clothes rack. I was supposed to go from the wardrobe to the rack and back, effectively stepping over the little creature. As per usual, I got the card (now my prime anti-maialino device) to collect it and then throw it out of the window. Unfortunately, being a young one, it attempted to accelerate. I caught up with it again, then it turned left, sharply and skidded off the card. At the third attempt, I was starting to get back ache (age again) so plunged down, only to jab the poor thing in the back, rather than scoop it up as planned. Because it was in the crack between the tiles, it literally squished in half. I leapt back in horror… card in hand, eyes firmly set on the segments of maialino… The hoover had to come out next. And no, it did not matter if it was not yet 8.00 am and the neighbour was asleep…