
I grew up with my Greek Cypriot parents and two brothers in North London, and now live in the house next door. If you walk down to the end of our 90-foot garden, you’ll find a secret gate in the fence between our houses. It’s there because my dad used to cut the previous owners’ lawn for them when they got too old to do it themselves. Now we all use it as a shortcut to pop into each other’s houses, and to tend to the chickens, Cornflake, Coco and Pip, who live in my dad’s homemade coop.
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