Pets on Parade (Prospect House 2) by Welshman Malcolm D

Author:Welshman, Malcolm D. [Welshman, Malcolm D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781857827705
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2012-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

REIGNING CATS AND DOG

I might have told Crystal and Eric that things weren’t too bad between Lucy and me – certainly nothing that would affect our working relationship in Prospect House – but outside the practice it was a different story. I just felt we’d reached a stalemate and that things weren’t going anywhere. But then did I want them to go anywhere? Was I looking for a long-term relationship – the type of commitment that would end up with a mortgage and 2.1 children?

Perhaps it was just the mood I was in. It wasn’t helped by an article I’d read recently in one of the Sunday papers, about when married couples are at their happiest. According to a poll of 4,000 couples conducted by a wedding website, they reach the ‘zenith of their contentment after 2 years, 11 months and 8 days together’. Hmm … Lucy and I reached ours within 20 minutes of tumbling into bed. No – only joking. But this poll stated that at that point in time, the couples were happy with each other’s bad habits.

As for my bad habits … well, I’m not sure I had any. I didn’t leave underpants lying around on the floor – only in the early, eager days of our relationship when they were left under the bed for the duration of activities going on above them. Now, my pants were neatly piled with socks and T-shirts, prior to being placed in our wicker laundry basket – what could one read into that, I wondered? And I didn’t leave the toilet seat up after use. The poll also stated that ‘three years after walking down the aisle, everything seems to come together – making each other laugh and cuddling up in front of the TV … and making gestures like offering to cook dinner and help with the washing up.’ Oh dear. We were already doing that – out of necessity, really. We were both stretched with our jobs, and so domestic duties had to be shared, including the cooking. A top-notch supermarket had recently opened on the outskirts of Westcott, on my route home to Ashton, and they did such a marvellous selection of à la carte ready-meals that it seemed a shame not to sample them. It was just a coincidence that we usually sampled them on those days when I was due to cook.

That report made me think that Lucy and I, although not married, may have peaked 2 years, 11 months and 8 days too early in our relationship, and that a stalemate had now been reached.

I realised I should have been discussing it with Lucy but somehow there never seemed to be the right time. OK, I admit it … that was more likely just an excuse. If the truth be known, I was probably just ducking out of the issue. For her part, Lucy seemed to be on autopilot, ticking over … getting through the daily routines. Her night duties were spent at

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