I asked: ‘Have you been on holiday? I haven’t seen you for
some weeks.’ She replied: ‘No, it’s just that our paths haven’t crossed.’ Ah,
but then I suspect she decided that the analogy of paths crossing was a little
too intimate to be addressed to a man who is old enough to be an ancestor, and
so she added: ‘What I mean is, I haven’t been on duty when you’ve been in the
shop.’ That’s fine, and I’ll still regard it as progress.
So to celebrate this thawing of relations, I thought I’d
post the picture to which I alluded when I first had my new toy, the scanner.
(You might remember I mentioned two girls in cowboy hats.) I was a lot younger than
the woman in the coffee shop etc-etc-etc when this was taken, by the way:
Notes
1. My hairstyle looks about ten years out of date, so I
suspect it had been re-arranged by the keen onshore wind for which Blackpool is famous. The wind doesn’t trouble my hair too
much these days.
2. As before, do excuse the poor quality of the picture. My
friend Barry took it.
3. Colour film had been invented by then, but we hadn’t yet
come to trust it. Besides, when you’ve only got a black and white camera…
4. The cowboy hats aren’t up to much, are they? Not exactly
Deadwood Stage standard. More like the stage in St Winifred’s Church Hall, Ramsbottom Road,
Wigan. The girls did come from Wigan as I
recall, not Wyoming.
(Nor even Wisconsin, more’s the pity.)
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