STUCK IN TIME (Stuck (time-travel adventure stories)) by Dave Johnson

Author:Dave Johnson [Johnson, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

The door to the butcher's shop was held wide open.

'After you,' said a cheery lady from inside the shop to an older lady with a stick, who nodded her approval of the first lady's good manners.

'No, after me!' thought James as he quietly slipped in before her and took a position in the corner of the shop, well out of the way of the growing queue. It was his second afternoon in the shop; an afternoon spent listening to the grumblings and the gossip from the good ladies of Anchester.

'Dearie me, just look at the queue.'

'All this queuing for a tiny bit of meat.'

'It's all that time messing about with coupons and Ration Books causes it.'

'Well, all I can say is it's a good job my George isn't here because he wouldn't be happy with just one sausage for his tea.'

'You had a letter back from him luv?'

'No, he's not one for writing, and he's probably got other things on his mind, what with Mr Hitler and all of that.'

'Well, no news is good news is what I say'…

Two hours later, James quietly left the butcher's shop. He felt he had learned much about the mood of the country. If the ladies of Anchester were a cross-section of women up and down Great Britain, there was a general air of optimism and an intention to get on and make the best of things. They were optimistic, James thought, largely because they had no real idea what was happening in the war. They took at face value the reports they read in newspapers and heard on the radio, but, 'Why not?' he said to himself, 'Better to be happy and busy and supportive, rather than wallowing in self-pity and misery.' As for the mood of the menfolk, well, James had not come across any in the butcher's shop, apart from the elderly butcher himself, who seemed cheerful enough. He never stopped whistling. James was beginning to acquire a knowledge of wartime popular songs and was not altogether impressed! As for any information that would be useful to them, James had drawn a blank so far. The weekend lay ahead then, on Monday, he thought he would try the greengrocer's whilst, for Lucy and Robert, it would be the first day of school.

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