The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell

Author:Lisa O'Donnell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 0099558424
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Nelly

While Marnie goes to Lochgilphead with her wayward girlfriends I take the opportunity to get to know our grandfather Robert T. Macdonald at his workshop situated in the Barrowland, a marketplace selling fish and bread and all kinds of bric-a-brac.

He shows us around his studio softened by woodchip and hardened by oak. He is working on a headboard. The headboard is for me. It is beautifully carved with stars. I can’t help but adore it.

“What do you think, love?” he asks with a familiarity not quite earned yet but I don’t seem to mind.

“Many thanks, Robert,” I say, although my gratitude does seem to startle him.

He has a young apprentice with him. Robert greets him warmly.

“This is Sandy,” he says. “My apprentice.”

He was a very pleasant lad and strangely familiar to me, not that I got a chance to quiz the fellow for he ran off and with the greatest of haste to fetch some milk, which was a rather pointless feat given we hadn’t even been offered a cup of tea. Thank goodness for Lennie’s cake in the oven for I was suddenly very tired of the workshop and very keen to return home, but not wishing to offend anyone we invite Robert T. Macdonald to sup with us. He was overwhelmed with gratitude and so I knew immediately we had done the right thing.

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