Crystal's Song by Millie Gray

Author:Millie Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845026813
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2013-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

16

Dinah was busying herself in the kitchen. The family would all be home for the special dinner they always had at exactly one o’clock on a Saturday. Hot Scotch pies, sausage rolls and bridies were invariably bought by Senga from Dickson’s renowned Home Bakery in North Junction Street. Senga didn’t seem to mind the wee detour on her way home from Bond Nine where she worked. How could she deny the weekend treat not only to the family but to herself as well?

The pies, after a little reheating in the oven, were served straight but the sausage rolls and bridies were laid out in the large frying pan and a tin of Heinz beans was poured around them before they too were given a nice gentle warm-up on a gas ring.

This Saturday afternoon, all except Tam had assembled and taken their allotted places at the table, the aroma of the heated delicacies only adding to everyone’s pangs of hunger.

“Can we no start noo?” asked Johnny, who was anxious to be fed immediately. “I’ve got a gemme at two o’clock.”

“We’re waiting for your Daddy. And by the way, since the two of you work in the shipyards thegither, why did he no come up the road with you?”

“We just got oot the gate and that guy …”

“What guy?”

“Och, let me finish, Mammy, before you butt in.”

Dinah was now over at the cooker giving the frying pan a good shoogle. “Blast! The beans are drying up,” she huffed, before going on: “You were saying, Johnny?”

“That guy Dad was a prisoner of war with …”

“Eddie Gibson?”

“Oh Ma, my stomach thinks ma throat’s cut so will you just gie me ma bridie and beans and then I’ll be better able to tell ye about the guy.”

With a sigh, Dinah started to set out the dinner and handed the first plate to Johnny who smiled before attacking his bridie and beans with such vigour that the sauce dribbled down his chin. After he’d wiped the dripping relish with the back of his right hand he licked that too.

Dinah was about to remind Johnny that he’d still to tell her about the man his Daddy had met when the door opened and in strode Tam. “Where the devil have you been?” Dinah demanded. “I held the dinner back for you. The bairns were nearly eating the table they felt so hungry.”

After ruffling Elsie’s hair, a smiling Tam took his seat and Dinah placed a plate with two Scotch pies in front of him. Putting Dinah out of her agony, Tam began to answer, while reaching over for the HP Sauce bottle. “Andy Young met me at the yaird gates. Had some information for me.”

Flashing her gaze towards to the ceiling, Dinah moaned, “Oh, no! And what does Mr Chips think you should be doing noo?”

“Well,” responded Tam, slapping the bottom of the sauce bottle so hard that a large dollop landed on Elsie’s plate – which caused Elsie to wail that she didn’t like brown sauce and all the more so when it was flung at her.

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