All Fall Down
“It meant Charlie had been sounding off in the pub again. He would go ahead and argue, that was his problem. If Rob Parsons got up on his hind legs to say the only good German was a dead one, Charlie couldn’t help answering back. He reckoned that Hitler wasn’t the only guilty party, that Churchill wasn’t all that he was cracked up to be. Charlie’s idea was that they’d been conned into fighting again, and all because the politicians had got it wrong after the last big do. ‘You won’t win no popula...rity contests round here if you go on like that,’ she would warn.
Now she went inside for a bucket of hot, soapy water and a scrubbing-brush before he crawled out of bed and spotted the offensive slogan. No point tackling him about it. No point talking to him about anything these days. Grimly she got down on her hands and knees and began to scrub.
‘Your Charlie in?’ a woman’s voice asked.
Dolly glanced over her shoulder at a pair of shapely legs in black high-heeled shoes. Dorothy O’Hagan had come calling.MoreLess
Now she went inside for a bucket of hot, soapy water and a scrubbing-brush before he crawled out of bed and spotted the offensive slogan. No point tackling him about it. No point talking to him about anything these days. Grimly she got down on her hands and knees and began to scrub.
‘Your Charlie in?’ a woman’s voice asked.
Dolly glanced over her shoulder at a pair of shapely legs in black high-heeled shoes. Dorothy O’Hagan had come calling.MoreLess
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