Listening on steroids
My father visited us last Christmas; I hadn't seen him for over a year and was very keen to catch up. Particularly as his life has been extremely tumultuous over the last 12 months. Relationship break downs, moving to France, journeys, new people...his life is very complex and I was dying to find out everything. You simply can't extract these things on Facebook or even on Skype so I thought a wholesome meal and a glass or two of a good French red would loosen his tongue. Boy was I…