“Mum and me had a row yesterday”

o “Row” A noisy quarrel/ argument, where the mother and child are talking over each other and
show impoliteness, about something that isn’t important or is silly. Row also means a long series
or number of thing’s arranged to form a line, one thing after the other- all this suggests the fight
was extremely long.

“A big, exploding”

“howdareyouspeaktomelikethatI’mofftostayatGran’s”

o Shows that heading to “Gran’s place” is a norm, implies that they’ve had multiple arguments
before that resulted in grandma’s place becoming the regular breather.
o “Kind of row” Identifying what specific argument they’ve had, also indicates that they’ve had
different types of “rows” before resulting into