The Bay
“She knew by the set of his mouth that he was cursing under his breath.
‘Marcus, go and see if you can help your father with the fire.’ ‘You need a proper gas barbecue instead of that old iron plate. Or just use the griller. You know Dad is not the happy camper type.’ ‘That old thing out there is a proper barbecue. If you guys don’t watch out, I’ll produce a camp oven to cook in for the rest of the weekend,’ Holly retorted.
‘You’ve been roughing it here too long, Mum. I bet you could swi...ng an axe with the best of them,’ teased Marcus. ‘I’ll take some of the dry wood from the firebox.’ Holly gazed up at the twilight sky where the last of the rain was heading out to sea. Between the grey clouds was a deep bruised expanse of greeny blue and arching across the bay was a pale rainbow. How lovely it looked. Mitchell had told her with winter they’d be going into the rainbow season. He promised her double rainbows. She was about to call to Marcus and Andrew to look at it, but saw they were in a heavy discussion over the state of the fire.MoreLess
‘Marcus, go and see if you can help your father with the fire.’ ‘You need a proper gas barbecue instead of that old iron plate. Or just use the griller. You know Dad is not the happy camper type.’ ‘That old thing out there is a proper barbecue. If you guys don’t watch out, I’ll produce a camp oven to cook in for the rest of the weekend,’ Holly retorted.
‘You’ve been roughing it here too long, Mum. I bet you could swi...ng an axe with the best of them,’ teased Marcus. ‘I’ll take some of the dry wood from the firebox.’ Holly gazed up at the twilight sky where the last of the rain was heading out to sea. Between the grey clouds was a deep bruised expanse of greeny blue and arching across the bay was a pale rainbow. How lovely it looked. Mitchell had told her with winter they’d be going into the rainbow season. He promised her double rainbows. She was about to call to Marcus and Andrew to look at it, but saw they were in a heavy discussion over the state of the fire.MoreLess
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