| To go off fishing together so there wouldn't be much company for me. On Christmas Day Ted and I drove the forty five kilometres to the nearest town and joined the local revellers in the pub for lunch. It should have been a happy occasion, but seeing families there, husbands and wives with their children, it made me a bit sad at our own lack of offspring. I spoke to some of the children as they told me what Father Christmas had brought them and played a few games with them until it was time for the drive back. Ted had taken on board a few too many, and since I ... |