Being idle on the river bank ...

Summer visitors were starting to arrive in Wareham - soon, Sainsbury's car park would be full of people carriers - I'd hear lean wives laughing in The Salt Pig - 

Crossing the High Street, Anne dodged a Range Rover - 

Dorset Cream Teas were snarfed in Nellie Crumb - 

We headed towards the town quay - 

There were men in camo trousers inside  the fishing tackle shop - they all had shaven heads -

Rex Hawkins was repairing toasters - the sad Kurds were preparing fiery Kebabs in Coppers - 

We sat upon a bench by the side of the river - 

Boats were for hire - a girl in red shorts waded out into the shallows - a canoodling couple set off upstream in a small motor boat - 

I stared at the seagulls perched upon the roof of a deconsecrated church - 

The tide was on the ebb - bright green ducks joshed each other - 

We rang my parents up - tomorrow we'd pay them a visit - we'd stay for two nights - 

Already, I felt a little anxious - 

12.00

20 June 2014

The Old School House