Playing cat and mouse ...
"Once, when I was staying at a boyfriends house, he had to sleep in the sitting room. We were getting right down to business on the floor, when this cat came right up to my shoulder. I turned my head to look and saw in this cat's mouth a half-devoured mouse, with all its entrails hanging out. The cat dropped it on my shoulder, and I screamed! This immediately woke the mother who found us in this incredibly compromising position with a dead mouse and the cat being chased around the room by my boyfriend"
Cupboard love ...
"One of my girlfriends had amazingly strict American parents. Once, they went to the theatre and we spent the evening in her room. About 9 o'clock we heard the front door go. Her parents had walked out of the play - I had to find somewhere to hide! I was bundled into the wardrobe and spent the night there. The parents were famously light sleepers. At about 5 or 6 in the morning we crept out of her room and down the stairs. Years later we got married, and this story has come up. They're still horrified and not amused in the slightest."
Tea and toast...
"Boys were allowed to come round to the house, but weren't allowed past the sitting room. It was very difficult trying to be cool as a teenager and sit in your front room and have your mother pouring you cups of tea, wasn't exactly what I had in mind when my boyfriend came round at that age. I very happy to tell you there's been a sexual revolution in our house and now that I'm 27, this year, we've been given a bedroom together.
