Paper Boy by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2023-09-16T14:49:40+00:00

Ray had got up, and they had got out the broad-bladed coal-shovels, clearing a path around the house and down the steps to the outside pavement.

All along the street, like-minded tenants were mimic-ing their efforts, conscious that the main road would be blocked to traffic.

Warren and Ray were dispatched to Dickinsons with a list of groceries to fetch, to top up the supplies they had in the pantry. His mother was all too well experienced of the vagaries of this kind of weather, and was all too mindful of the time of year that the ‘big snow’ of 1947 began.

She was stocking up for a siege.

Even with his rugby socks inside his wellingtons, and his scarf doubled-in to make a bobble-hat with the ends would around his neck, the whipping wind was a chapping saw.

Ray said Dad and Dai would be working a doubler if they weren’t home before four, just in case they couldn’t go to work tomorrow, which was likely, and would prevent him from setting off for his shift.

The trains were pretty consistent, he’d continued, but they couldn’t always cope with the drifts. The buses could get about with chains, as could the lorries, but it was all according to how much fell.

This looked a ripe lot.

It snowed on and off, each time as heavily as the one before, until Wednesday, but no amount of shoveling would get the buses running properly.

Warren’s father and Dai had managed to get to Crumlin on Tuesday, after working a doubler as Ray said, but they had to battle their way through waist high drifts in places in order to get across the valleys.

Those retreaters from Moscow could not have had it much rougher, he decided, except that they had seven hundred miles to traverse, an ordeal far beyond his imagination.

It was dark when they eventually arrived, white-caked with snow and blue with the cold, which definitely precluded them from making an attempt the following morning.

No work, no socialising, no school, no papers and, most galling of all, no shagging.

He and Tim made a futile effort on Friday, fostered by the arrival of the daily papers, but no buses were forthcoming, which told them in no uncertain terms that the steepest hills between them and the school were impassable to traffic.

Only the paths carved out of the deep snow by constant foot traffic allowed passageway to the main roads, where the rutted tracks from chain, wheel-wrapped lorries and other goods vehicles made the journey to town that bit more accessible.

He fretted about Saturday afternoon.

Would the weather relent sufficiently to allow Gillian to make their usual rendezvous, and would Alison turn up with a tale of tragedian proportions.

God forbid that her mother uncovers the whereabouts of the exquisitely-carved phallus. Even then he had to be concerned that Alison might be offended at so obvious a gift.

It was a week of mental turmoil.

The ramifications of his error haunted him, finding himself unable to stop the concatenation of thoughts building up to ever more scenarios of horror-filled revelations.

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