……. to bring some exciting news about my little Maggie. She wrote a story all about friends and submitted it to the local newspaper writing competition. Third prize in her age category! We’ve just returned from the big presentation night. What a little star she is!
As you can imagine, we’re all spewing forth great bucketfuls of pride and happiness at her achievement. I told her that I know how she feels because I won third prize in a short story competition once. (I then went on to confess that I was 18 years old at the time, not seven!)
So I didn’t need to think positively about this one. How could you think any other way?
