The Visitor by Chris Simpson

Author:Chris Simpson [Chris Simpson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857161758
Publisher: McNidder and Grace Limited
Published: 2017-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Laura had cleared a space among the chaos on the table. Milking finished, Jos had brought Walter in to meet the visitor. After an initial muttered, ‘How d’ya do,’ he wrapped himself around a tankard of “lotion”, adding it was ‘for t’road’. Nobody seemed to mind that he brought a liberal helping of the aromas of the cowshed with him and Jos hadn’t seen Emily so “fired up”, as he put it, in months.

The young visitor missed nothing as he quietly observed the scene before him. He noticed how these people in their way cared one for another. Even Walter, for all his laconic facade, was clearly a man with more under his skin than met the eye.

The subject of milking came up and the young man said he would rather like to see that. Walter couldn’t fathom that at all. ‘Nay, these days there’s nowt to it. Tha’ should have been around a few years ago. We did it all by hand then, none of this sit back and wait for t’machine lark. Them were t’days.’

He finished his beer, reckoned he’d see Jos in the morning as usual, bade the visitor and Emily, ‘G’night,’ and set off with Laura in his little green van, the metallic rattle of snow chains audible long after they had disappeared into a fold of the hills.

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