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>Where are you? "In the Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, Caffè dei Romani, sitting in the shade” >OK, See you in a bit. "Get some pics?” >Lots! Finally, we were in Italy, in Lucca, and had discovered that to have a relaxing holiday, we both needed to compromise and that we didn't have to do everything together. But that doing things together, exploring different things was also part of the fun. Colin would appear shortly, order an expresso and show me his photograph
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The next ten days dragged horribly. On Thursday, Keith had sent a text to Thomas, one that had taken him hours to compose. Friendly, casual, and keen, but not over-keen. And preferably with a pun as well, the best he could do was saying how much he had enjoyed himself; it had been hard to tear himself away. Then there was silence, but late on Thursday night there was an apologetic one from Thomas, it even sounded weary; he had had a long and problematic day, but Wednesday was a happy memory and
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There was just one weekend before they went off to Italy, so Colin had presented his Mother with an ultimatum. He and Owain wanted to come up, so it could be on the Sunday afternoon. They'd arrive after lunch and stay for tea. It turned into just another Sunday, Colin labouring in the garden under his Mother's instruction. He'd already done a few jobs in the house; she'd had a list and for once there had been no messing about. He'd been able to get on with it - a stop cock that had seized,
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There is a British animated TV series from the 1970s (I think) called Roobarb & Custard, where Roobarb was a dog and Custard a cat!
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Thanks. And don't worry, Nate (yes, short for Nathan but that name never crops up) is entirely sympathetic. Not sure why the name crops up more than once in my stories!
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Keith stood in the bathroom, drying himself after a shower. He was meeting old work- mates for a drink and to go bowling. A sweaty day struggling with the wiring in an old place being renovated had made him decide to strip, and shower. He was stood in front of the mirror, he could hardly not be, the bathroom was tiny, barely room for bath, basin, and bog. He pulled on his kecks and caught sight of himself. What if it happened? If he met a bloke and went back with someone? It hadn’t happened
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Family Life: Church reconciliation
Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Family Life: Church reconciliation
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Did it really matter? Colin insisted that it didn't, but there was something in the way that Mhairi and I had been brought up that meant we could not quite shake it off. Some of the Glennister money came from arms manufacturing. Grandfather Donald's Father-in-law, Sir Benjamin Glennister had made a significant (and probably now unquantifiable) amount of his fortune from his various industrial plants that made components for weapons and such, contributing to the arms build-up in the 1930s and the
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As luck would have it, on Monday morning Keith was at the building supplies because he’d discovered he’d managed to run out of stuff he needed for a job, either that or he’d not bought enough in the first place. Cursing himself for an idiot, he pulled up first thing and walked in to chat to Reg, the old guy that generally served him. It was never a quick process; Reg was something of an old woman and liked a good gossip. Still, happily stocked up he walked out of the hut into the yard and bumped
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"Fuck, I'm sweating like a pig." Colin was, understandably, nervous and it was showing in all the dark, damp patches on his rather smart new t-shirt. "Look. Change into one of those boring white ones that we bought for you to leave here, put a shirt on over it but leave it loose, unbuttoned. By all means wipe yourself down first, but don't use any more spray-on deodorant, you'll kill flies at 30 paces otherwise." Colin pulled a face at me but grinned and went upstairs. Always self
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Ha ha! Wait and see...
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Don't worry, Keith is going to meet someone and have fun. Oh, and the Keith/Greg/Bart thing just ain't happening!
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Don't worry, relief is on its way.
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Keith had heard of the 'White Horse' from Hughie, not directly but he had heard the guy talking about the pub. A gay pub. In Leeds. So, far enough away to not risk bumping into someone he knew. And so, heart in his mouth, Keith had driven up to Leeds and was now walking into the place. He almost didn’t, he walked up and down the street a few times, noting the guys going in. It was a big place, an old pub that had acquired a variety of tacky, glitzy decorations. If you put the lights full on it w
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Colin had thought about Jase’s advice regarding staying in touch with his family and sent emails to his Mum, Annalisa and to Miles. The weekend in Oslo gave him the excuse of sending a few of the pictures he’d taken, including one of him and Owain where they looked like an ordinary happy couple. His Mum hadn’t responded, yet, but Annalisa had sent more news of the twins. It wasn’t that the inane stories of ballet and that were interesting, it was the fact that she was sending anything at all.
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Hope you do. Lots of fun to come.
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I'm not sure how it happened, it was intended to be quite a compact tale, but the characters just grew
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Don't worry, temptation is coming!
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Thanks. I hadn't thought about the similarity, perhaps there was a bit of me in each of them.
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Thanks for all the lovely comments, they are much appreciated. There will certainly be no "sparky's crack" from Keith, he is far to uncertain of himself and shy for that!
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Not an end but a beginning
Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Not an end but a beginning
Many thanks for all the lovely comments on the story. Brian, Gordon, Toby et al will be back with more adventures later in the year, in the meantime, I do hope you enjoy my new story. -
Many thanks for all the lovely comments on the story. Brian, Gordon, Toby et al will be back with more adventures later in the year, in the meantime, I do hope you enjoy my new story.
