The Colour-Coded Calendar

Six adults. Three couples. One colour-coded calendar.

Naomi runs everything - the school, the household, the meticulously scheduled arrangement that has three couples in a Home Counties village sharing far more than the school run. Seren draws what she sees and loves what she draws. Priya guards the perimeter. Tom makes tea in every crisis. Jack builds things that hold. Lena reads bodies for a living, and she's been reading Naomi's for months.

What started as a logistics problem - six people,...