Crisis Four
“I laughed. ‘Kelly, look at that bloke there! Isn’t he weird!’ He had big lumps of metal sticking out of his nose, lips, eyebrows, all sorts. I said, ‘I bet he wouldn’t dare walk past a magnet factory.’ I laughed at my own joke. She didn’t, possibly because it was so bad. ‘You shouldn’t make personal remarks like that,’ she said. ‘Anyway, I bet he’s been to the Bloody Tower.’ Her school work might be suffering a bit but she was still as sharp as her old man.
I looked across at her in the passeng...er seat and felt yet another pang of guilt. She was reading about how wonderful London was from a flyer we had in our hire car; she was sulking away, probably wondering what could be so important in my life that instead of taking her to see the Crown Jewels, I was dumping her back with her dreary old grandparents who she already saw enough of during the weekends out from her boarding school.
We drove through Docklands in the East End of London, past the outrageously tall office block on Canary Wharf; then, as we followed signs for the Blackwall Tunnel, the Millennium Dome, still under construction, came into view across the Thames.MoreLess
I looked across at her in the passeng...er seat and felt yet another pang of guilt. She was reading about how wonderful London was from a flyer we had in our hire car; she was sulking away, probably wondering what could be so important in my life that instead of taking her to see the Crown Jewels, I was dumping her back with her dreary old grandparents who she already saw enough of during the weekends out from her boarding school.
We drove through Docklands in the East End of London, past the outrageously tall office block on Canary Wharf; then, as we followed signs for the Blackwall Tunnel, the Millennium Dome, still under construction, came into view across the Thames.MoreLess
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