I Heard You by Paul Pilkington

Author:Paul Pilkington [Pilkington, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

7

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the limited amount of time I had for packing meant that I limited my time packing. Within two hours, everything was packed and in the car. I can’t say that the morning hadn’t been stressful, but it was liberating in some ways to be forced to go against my normal preference of advance preparation.

I had heeded James’ warning and had packed all manner of waterproof clothing, for us and Grace. Not that I was too keen on taking Grace out if it was too wet. I didn’t really sign up to the old wives’ tale that you would catch a cold through getting wet, but it didn’t seem sensible to expose a baby to such harsh elements. The umbrellas I thought would be downright dangerous – umbrellas, strong winds and a cliff side location weren’t a good mix. But I’d packed them anyway, in case we needed them en route.

‘We’re making good time,’ James noted, as we cruised down the motorway at a constant sixty five. The weather was still bright and dry, with the wet and windy conditions only due to hit our destination during the early hours. I still hoped the forecast might change again, giving us a reprieve. Grace was asleep in the backward facing car seat, and I was sitting next to her. She’d lasted just ten minutes before closing her eyes – the roll of the car and noise of the engine was much more effective at inducing sleep than our stories had ever been. We’d actually resorted to taking Grace out at night for a drive once or twice, when getting her to sleep the natural way had proved impossible. But we’d resisted that becoming a routine, as it did with some couples, as it was just storing trouble up for later.

I looked at my watch. ‘How long have we been travelling?’

‘Just over two hours,’ he said, meeting my eye in the rear view mirror.

‘We’d better stop soon. Grace will need her feed, and you could do with a rest. We can grab some lunch there too.’

He nodded. ‘We just passed a sign - there’s a services in ten miles. They’ve got a Marks and Spencer. We can stop there.’

‘Sounds good.’

‘I’m sorry,’ he said, meeting my eyes again in the mirror.

‘Sorry. For what?’

‘For springing this on you like that. I know you normally don’t like surprises, and it wasn’t really fair of me to just go and book it at such short notice.’ He glanced at me with concerned eyes.

‘It’s fine,’ I said. ‘I’m really looking forward to it.’ Maybe he was worried that I was hiding my true feelings; burying any anger I felt about the last minute holiday until the weekend was over. But in truth, it wasn’t like that at all. Yes, it wasn’t my normal way of doing things. However, I could understand why he had done it. He’d been stressed recently, I could tell. A large part of that was probably the

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