Daily story, February 15, 2025

I used to get 20p for doing the pots. 50p for washing the car or raking up the cuttings after my dad mowed the lawn. A pound for polishing his shoes, as long as I didn’t get any on the carpet. Two pounds the time I defrosted the freezer. A fiver to hide mum’s cigarettes. A tenner to hide Uncle Jim’s whisky. Two hundred pounds when Grandad died. And he always insisted on doing the washing up, so it earned me a few extra 20ps, too.