Pick Me Up!

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Scrolling on Facebook, I caught up on anything I had missed throughout the day.

There was nothing particularly interesting, but a few posts were the same.

A yellow weather warning has been put in place due to Storm Arwen.

Not really thinking much of it, I put my phone down and turned on the TV.

And with that my son Adam, eight, had turned the channel over to watch his normal after-school cartoons – music blasting from the speakers.

It was 27 November 2021 and I had done the housework throughout the day as I normally would, before picking Adam up from school around 3pm.

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