The Home Corner (2013)
“They just rolled on. Sometimes I wondered if that was how my predecessor had seen them, too; if Miss Ford had ever looked up at the pure blue sky one September afternoon, and thought Jesus, it’s autumn. Or if she’d used to sit on a bus from her home to St Luke’s and back in a kind of trance. I hardly even registered the children growing taller, or the sums getting harder, or the seasonal fruits on the lunch menu changing from rock-hard winter oranges to small Scottish strawberries. I used to ta...ke sandwiches in for lunch, myself: I packed them in the pale green lunchbox I’d had at high school. Cheese and pickle most days, a wee carton of juice and an apple. I ate sitting on the same chair in the staffroom, looking out of the same window at the same view. I was stuck, I suppose; I was fixed, and I didn’t know how to alter things. This month is: JUNE. Today the weather is: SUNNY, I remember it saying one day on the weather chart that Mrs Baxter kept propping up on the Nature Table – but it’s funny how you can read a statement like that and not take it in.MoreLess
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