BITE THE BULLET
May 14, 2020
3 minutes
Words by Katie Pearson
Leanne Polis, 39, from Gloucestershire
Walking from one end of the kitchen to the other, I hopped across the tiles like I was performing an energetic dance routine.
But I wasn’t playing hopscotch, or practising hip-hop – I was trying to dodge the rapid gunfire coming from the hallway.
‘ATTACK!’ my little girl, Renee, eight, roared.
‘Be careful!’ I called out.
‘Never aim them at people’s faces, remember.’
She shot a round of foam bullets towards her target, as her big brother Rhys, 15, pretended to
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