Ring Road: There’s no place like home. Ian Sansom

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Название Ring Road: There’s no place like home
Автор произведения Ian Sansom
Жанр Классическая проза
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Издательство Классическая проза
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780007402472



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the committee that this was going to be the decision, so he wasn’t shocked, and he’d already spoken to his partners, to Bob Savory and to the people who needed to know, and he had instructed his solicitor, Martin Phillips, to begin preparing the appeal, but on Christmas Eve, as Mr Donelly knelt up from his prayers and Mrs Donelly got into her Austin Allegro and looked up into the sky, and thanked her lucky stars, it felt to her, for a moment, like victory, if not a miracle.

      It would have been nice if I could tell you now that there’d been some snow, just to finish things off, but I cannot tell a lie, and God and the weather are not always answerable to our needs and desires, and I’m afraid sometimes sleet is as good as it gets. There was sleet.

      WOOLLY HAT FOR SEAMEN

      Ladies, keep up the good work! Not only do these colourful hats provide much needed protection from the harsh sea winds, but also a cover for many a bible smuggled on board ship bound for pagan lands. Every one of us can share in God’s ministry to the needy simply by picking up our knitting needles! So don’t hesitate, ladies, get knitting today, to advance the kingdom of God!

      Pattern for Hat:

      3 balls 20g d.k. wool.

      Using No. 10 needles cast on 132 sts.

      1st and every K.2 P.2.

      Continue until work measures 2½ inches.

      Change to size 8 needles and continue to double rib until work measures 9½ inches.

      Shape top:

      1st row *K.3 tog. K.9 repeat from * to end (110 sts).

      2nd and every alt. row Purl.

      3rd row *K.3 tog. K.7 repeat from * to end (88 sts).

      5th row *K.3 tog. K.5 repeat from * to end (66 sts).

      7th row *K.3 tog. K.3 repeat from * to end (44 sts).

      9th row *K.3 tog. K.1 repeat from * to end (22 sts).

      11th row *K.2 tog to end (11 sts).

      Thread wool through sts, draw up and fasten. Sew seam.

       4 The Dump

      Describing an auspicious occasion – a party in a pubwhich demonstrates the wholesomeness of life amidst the usual waste and humiliation

      You wouldn’t have thought so, but the range of temperatures here in town can be pretty extreme. It can get all the way up to the seventies on occasion in July and even on a winter’s afternoon, when the sun’s out, you sometimes see young men sitting outside pubs in their shirtsleeves. In February, on a good day, on a bright day, outside the Castle Arms it’s like a playground: little groups, little huddles, jackets off, joking and having fun. In our town such an opportunity is not to be missed: the sun here always tends to go to our heads.

      But, alas, the unseasonably warm weather has not been good for my old friend Billy Nibbs: in the heat, the smell