Pretty As A Picture!

By Lorna, Glasgow

My mother tends to like pictures and cannot really understand how you can have a sitting room without a picture as a focal point. This meant that she bought us a picture when we moved into our new flat. She knew that my boyfriend David didn’t much care for it despite his best attempts to cover it up and had been making ‘Ill change it for another’ noises ever since! Once we were settled she was coming up to stay and we thought we would put this thing up (and probably take it down again once she’d gone). It took forever to get a fixture in the wall which is really solid but the picture was up and everybody would be happy…or so we thought. Having done the tour of the flat we sat down and mum commented how the picture made the room! Two minutes later it was round her head where the fixture had come out the wall, tea everywhere and us laughing hysterically. It was only light so nobody was hurt and even she laughed…eventually. To this day she swears it was all planned. It wasn’t, of course…David?????