Well, alright, I will give her some credit.

She would notice but she wouldn’t put down the phone or stop talking – she would just absentmindedly watch the chaos around her, whilst continuing to chat to her friend Susan about how to do a proper cross-stitch and I am being one-hundred percent honest with you – perhaps only ninety-three percent honest and then seven percent poetic-license, but honest for the most part.

As I said before, her being constantly pre-occupied on the phone was a blessing when I was in my mid-teens. I would ask to do anything or go anywhere and I would get a lazy grunt and nod of the head in return, which I, being the stereotypical rebel teenager, took as being “Yes, Leia, please do go out and have a rollicking good time with your fellow friends and do not hesitate to be out past your bedtime as I’m sure you will be responsible and very safe in concern with your whereabouts and our knowledge thereof.â€?