Liverpool Daisy
““I’ll tell George and Nell there was no work for me tonight,” she decided, as she clambered laboriously on to a tram. Mother of Christ, every bone in her body ached and her eyelids dropped with lack of sleep. She sighed heavily, as she rocked with the motion of the vehicle and watched the street lamps flick by.At home, she found George asleep beside his wife, and little Joey was dozing in the easy chair by a fading living-room fire.George looked like a stuck pig, with his mouth wide open. But N...ellie admonished her, “Himself is proper tired. Let him sleep.”“There was no work for me tonight,” Daisy yawned. “I’ll make us all some supper and well get into bed.”As she trailed up and downstairs, distributing bread, cheese and tea to her guests, she worried about where she could hide her newly-acquired rent book and also her precious hoard of savings. George would be in most nights, and iddy Joey was as nosy as a hungry cur, not to mention the possibility that sharp, observant Meg might arrive.“And there’ll be all the old biddies from round about come a-visiting, every bloody cousin we’ve got, and Christ knows who,”MoreLess
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