CONNIKA

LILIANE IS 4

...and she has been in my mind on and off all day as I have been working here in the office.  the tales her mother tells.  of how school gets in the way of caring for her babies.  of how she stuffs one up her jumper and tells her mother to run a bath as she's about to give birth.  perhaps something to with the fact that her mother is a doula!  when she was last here, she took one of my dollies home and came to her mother with tears dripping off her wee cheeks.  "What's the matter Liliane?"  she was very upset as the dolly I had said she could take home so long as she looked after her "...is missing her mother."  happy birthday dear one.  papa and I will see you in may.

DON'T TELL MUMMY! DON'T TELL DADDY!

 
Liliane whispered in her mother's ear, "Daddy has a new phone for your birthday Mummy." 

"I don't think you were supposed to tell me that Liliane." said Greer. 

"It's a secret.  Don't tell Daddy!"