“Mummy, I want a baby sister.”

“Then every Sunday morning, creep into the garden,” she says. “Hunt for lucky four leaf clovers ’til Daddy calls out, ‘Pancakes!’”

I hunt and hunt. Never find even one.

But just before Christmas, baby Felicity arrives.

And all because of my hunting, Mummy says.

Joanna Norland is a writing coach, playwright and mother of two. Which leaves her just enough time to scribble fifty fictional words a month. See more at mumswrite.com.