I tell my gymnast daughter not to do handstands on the settee, while remembering the times I did just that. |
She said he had grabbed her by the throat and blacked her eye by hurling her on to the settee. |
Our little sitting room behind the shop was transformed into a card and calendar showroom, with trestles over the settee. |
Under the settee in the lounge officers also found a machete and two wooden coshes. |
Of course, we all had far too much to eat, and ended up flopped on the settee feeling full but satisfied for the rest of the night. |
She spent most of her time under the settee, pressed up as tight into the corner as she could, and hardly touched her food. |