Chapter 21How to Avoid Burnout and a Break-up
24 December 1997. Christmas Eve, and my two young children had finally been persuaded to go to bed with the threat that Father Christmas wouldn't visit if they were still awake – or even worse, I would start singing to them.
Whilst I struggled to light the fire in our living room, my wife microwaved our Chinese ready meals and dug out the chopsticks. We always go to a lot of trouble for our romantic meals by the fire.
With the kids tucked up in bed and the fire roaring (I had to rely on fire lighters rather than skill), we settled down to the finest ready meal the Co-op had to offer. We had even splashed out on a portion of prawn crackers and seaweed – it was Christmas after all.
Helen and I seemed ...
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