So, you’ve met older Ursula. Now it’s time to go back to 1978 and meet younger Ursula…
Maybe it was the way the light slipped in through the in-between bits of the curtains and tickled her eyes open. Maybe it was because she turned over and switched the radio on and ‘Supernature’, the song she couldn’t stop dancing to, happened to be playing.
Or maybe it was because she was about to start her first job. It could have been any or all of these things but from the moment she woke up, Ursula had this feeling the day was going to be special and straight away, she was out of bed and on her feet knowing that everything she did in the next twenty-four hours was going to be monumental. Because some days you just know, don’t you? Some days you can be absolutely sure that nothing whatsoever is going to go wrong. That is, until your mum opens the door with a foul look on her face, and then the perfect bubble is well and truly burst.
‘Ursula, we do not all want to hear that bloody song every minute of the day.’
She meant herself really, since they were the only two people who lived in the flat, and Ursula most certainly did want to hear it every minute of the day.
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Hazel Ward 