Winter in Thrush Green
“Albert Piggott is Wooed NELLY TILLING kept her word. She paid three visits to Mr Piggott's cottage, carrying with her each rime a stout rush basket bearing a scrubbing brush, house flannel, and a large packet of detergent whose magic properties had been dinned into her by television advertisements. Nelly was a firm believer in the educational value of television, and took everything she saw as gospel truth.
Her set was an old one, given her by the landlord of 'The Drovers' Arms,' not far from h...er own cottage, where she worked two mornings a week scrubbing out the bar. Kindly Ted and Bessie Allen, for whom young Molly Piggott had once worked, felt very sorry for Nelly Tilling when her husband died and had decided that their old television set would be just the thing to cheer her lonely evenings.
They were quite right. Nelly was an avid watcher and took great delight in telling her employers all about the programmes–which they had seen for themselves the night before–in meticulous detail.MoreLess
Her set was an old one, given her by the landlord of 'The Drovers' Arms,' not far from h...er own cottage, where she worked two mornings a week scrubbing out the bar. Kindly Ted and Bessie Allen, for whom young Molly Piggott had once worked, felt very sorry for Nelly Tilling when her husband died and had decided that their old television set would be just the thing to cheer her lonely evenings.
They were quite right. Nelly was an avid watcher and took great delight in telling her employers all about the programmes–which they had seen for themselves the night before–in meticulous detail.MoreLess
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