H just called again. Wants to know if I can send him up an ingredient that is used in a dish that I make. It is the only 'proper' dish he learnt to make in our ten years together. (The rest of his cooking is EXTREMELY basic.) The ingredient needs to be got from a specialist shop.

I admit I felt a great surge of irritation that H still sees me as the one to turn to for little favours like that.

It's OK to call me a b*tch one week and then ask me to send up stuff the next?

Please tell me what this is all about, folks.

I said I would send up the stuff with D, but I sounded slightly underenthusiastic, I admit, sort of distracted.

Livnlearn

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates