Today’s high is 24 degrees Celsius, low is 8, like the English Indian Summers of my early teens. We went to school in wool coats and blazers and jumpers and tights, peeling off the layers in the afternoon, getting off the school coach bare-legged, skirts rolled up, shirts unbuttoned, strappy tops underneath, buying ice-lollies from the cornershop. Lolita fantasy
(The cool girls, women-shaped, clomped around in clunky rubber-heeled shoes, microskirts, and oversized jumpers, boobs and thumb holes and rubber bracelets.)
