Image: © Alicia Metcalf
Author: Alicia Metcalf
My Mum used to cut apples in quarters after school when we were kids. - it was the ground rule in order to eat chocolate biscuits. My Mum had many ground rules such as -always telling the truth (except when it is about hitchhiking during summer) -always sing Abba songs out of tune -never disturbing a mother who is reading Now that I am older I often think about these apple quarters cut and shared with love and I do myself cut them that way now and I do hitchhike with strangers and lie to you about it but I also give you books and I write you poems