" We left the nursery in silence, Ma smoking a roll-up, looking like she hadn’t slept in a week or maybe like she had slept for a whole week. When the nursery was just a grubby finger smudge behind us Ma looked down at me and said in her poshed-up telephone voice: “Will you speak to Janie about swearing? Fuckin’ busybody!”
I laughed and swung our linked hands.
“Aye, fuckin’ busybody.”
Pleas of laughter escaped us and spiraled up into the hot, blue Scottish sky. We laughed all the way home "
― Kerry Hudson , Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma