Nell: I have a question for you.
Me: Why do I think I’m not going to like it?
Nell: If you were happily sleeping in the September sunshine…
Me: We’re talking about you yesterday, aren’t we?
Nell: Minding your own business and enjoying the warmth of the sun on your tired bones.
Me: Oh dear.
Nell: And you heard someone say ‘Just step over her’. What would you think?
Me: Harriet wanted to go out into the sunshine, too.
Nell: But she didn’t step over me.
Me: No. She managed to squeeze past.
Nell: She bumped my nose.
Me: You were lying in the doorway.
Nell: You do realise I couldn’t go back to sleep after that.
Me: Why?
Nell: Because I knew David was still inside.
Me: And?
Nell: And if you told him to jump over me I might never see the light of day again.
Me: I didn’t say ‘jump’. I said ‘step’.
Nell: I’m not a hurdle.
Me: I know that.
Nell: Or a sack of potatoes.
Me: Nobody said you were.
Nell: All I was doing was enjoying a little ‘me time’.
Me: Well, don’t do it in the doorway.
Nell: One has to lie where the sun is.
Me: I have some good news.
Nell: Tell me.
Me: The recording of the animation demo in Vancouver and the UK went really well yesterday.
Nell: Good.
Me: Sunny and Gillian were fabulous as us. They made everyone laugh. Even the sound engineers.
Nell: I’m not funny.
Me: You are. You have a dry sense of humour.
Nell: I simply tell it how it is.
Me: In your world.
Nell: It’s a world we’re about to share with a whole new audience.
Me: I can hardly believe it’s happening.
Nell: Well, it is.
Me: Yes. Sorry.
