This happened shortly before my 15th birthday and is something that I can remember clearly even today.
One Monday evening Mum arrived home from work with another woman who she introduced as Val. She was from another office but was working with mum for the week and she thought it would be nicer for her to stay with us and use our spare bedroom rather than at a hotel. Dad had agreed and I certainly didn’t object to having another female around the house.
Val was in her early thirties, short blonde hair, fairly slim and