A Fall From Grace
“Like most good parties its origins were obscured in the mists of alcohol. At some point and for some reason several inhabitants of Slepton Edge had decided to go over to the Duke of Kent’s in Shelf for a bit of a pre-Christmas piss-up. The Duke’s had an enviable reputation for food, so anyone who wanted to combine the piss-up with a nosh-up could easily do so. Then someone remembered that Desmond Pinkhurst would be home that Sunday, so the whole occasion swelled in size and became an impromptu ...welcome-home for Desmond, though The Wild Duck was continuing until Christmas, when its strong-minded social vision would be succeeded in Sheffield by Aladdin, His Cat and the Seven Dwarfs, a satiric pantomime dreamed up by some bright spark who had failed to sell the idea to the BBC.
So there they all were—half the village, some with children, all with a healthy thirst that gladdened the sight of the landlord. Charlie, sitting with his pint in a corner with a good view (Felicity was driving—one of the advantages of a pregnant wife, in Charlie’s opinion), watched and listened and had to restrain himself from saying, “Shh!MoreLess
So there they all were—half the village, some with children, all with a healthy thirst that gladdened the sight of the landlord. Charlie, sitting with his pint in a corner with a good view (Felicity was driving—one of the advantages of a pregnant wife, in Charlie’s opinion), watched and listened and had to restrain himself from saying, “Shh!MoreLess
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