Pick Me Up!

BURIED IN TIME

Lugging the last of the boxes into the house, I was exhausted.

My wife, Leanne, 39, and son Daniel, 15, followed me in, collapsing on the sofa we’d hauled in a couple of hours prior.

It was positioned across from a dated fireplace.

‘Anyone want a cup of tea?’ my sister Deborah, 51, shouted from the kitchen next door.

‘I’d love one, thanks,’ I replied, coming in to help.

It felt strange moving my sister back to the estate we had grown up on.

After suffering a brain aneurysm a few years ago and

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