Spies, Lies & Consequences by Hugh Davies

Author:Hugh Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783066551
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Chapter XXIV

The exposed beam

The new clothes included everyday casual as well as smart. Anne had put on some weight, as I said, and probably her older clothes did not fit so well. We went to Haverfordwest and she bought cosmetics, as well as better food and the highlight was a new car; a brand new car. Her mother’s house had been sold and what with Harry’s life insurance and a good Local Government widow’s pension, she was quite well off.

The car was a sporty bright red Italian Alfa Romeo. It reminded her of her wonderful trip to Italy, she said. She travelled mostly with me on the passenger seat so she could chat to me, all over the county and country as she and Harry had done. We went to the other Broad Haven in the south of the county with a beautiful beach. The lily ponds at Bosherston, Carew Castle, Manorbier and of course Pembroke Castle – another reminder of her Harry with Prince Harry: Henry VII, Henry Tudor, who had been born, and grew up there. They travelled not only locally but up into Mid and North Wales and the South Wales valleys now being landscaped and most if not all of the coal mines gone. On the hillsides overlooking Port Talbot grass and trees were growing again, Wales was smartening itself up like Anne was on the personal level. There was redevelopment of the docks areas in Swansea and Cardiff. New marinas and the huge Cardiff Bay barrage. The M4 motorway and A40 meant faster access to South Wales and beyond to Pembrokeshire. It was weekend commutable from London and the Midlands.

Pembrokeshire had regained its identity from the silly conglomerate called Dyfed that consisted of the old Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. Dyfed was a name that harkened back to ancient times when it was a kingdom. The modern concept of that entity, only a systems man mentality of the nineteen seventies could have dreamed up, totally contrary to modern political and ethnic reality. It was an example of the hollow triumph of efficiency over effectiveness. To a systems man of the seventies, human nature isn’t logical, it cannot be measured, and therefore it doesn’t exist. Dyfed was not disbanded; it disbanded itself as its initial concept was so ludicrous. Of course there could be economies of scale by cooperating with each other but that did not mean a political-type union.

Anne knew the exposed beam she had in mind – but did he have her in mind? It looked as if he may be spoken for, by his earlier remark about meeting someone at the Swan Inn, but who knows, and if there was a competitor she reckoned she said she could outsmart many women. Nevertheless she had better look around.

‘Should I seek advice from the expert, naughty Christina?’ she said to herself and thence to me.

‘No, I’d rather talk to her afterwards – if there is some progress.’

At this time I had competition for my attentions. Anne had acquired two new gadgets of the electronic age: a mobile phone and a personal computer, the PC.

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