SLIP OF THE TONGUE

Sitting back with a cup of tea, I smiled. ‘Just what I need,’ I said to myself. It was 2013, and after a long day at work as an electrical contractor, I was glad to be home.

Sipping on my hot tea, though, I winced.

‘What’s wrong love?’ my partner Angela, now 52, asked.

‘I’ve got this pain in my mouth,’ I said.

‘I think it may be an ulcer.’

For the past few weeks, I’d had