Title: Off the Record

Author: Samara McDowell

In: Sport 32: Summer 2004

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, December 2004

Part of: Sport

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Sport 32: Summer 2004

Women's Work

Women's Work

Riki is vacuuming the living room with less enthusiasm than anyone you have ever seen. He stands dispiritedly in one place, near the door to the balcony, and makes half-hearted sweeps around him with the nozzle. Jonathan, on the other hand, is bounding around in one of his excesses of energy, organising people, carrying armloads of boxes, records, blankets, equipment down to the van. He picks up something page 121 you can't see, from where you're sitting on the ledge of the balcony chatting to Fima, and yells to Riki, ‘Hey whose is this penis enlarger, man?’

Riki doesn't even look up from his limp Wilma the Happy Housewife impression. ‘Lucien's,’ he says, without missing a beat.