Author Archives: bill

Cairo had become the City most frequently visited by the post-war Transport Service and B had found that, besides being the most lucrative place for trading the products he now regularly bought at other places along the route between the … Continue reading →

The YMCA was the worst accommodation they had ever experienced. There were cavernous dormitories filled with closely packed beds, where figures were either sleeping or groups were sitting on beds talking in whispers. When they booked in they were warned … Continue reading →

Morning brought much yawning and stretching. There was a fearful fug in the train and windows were opened to let in the outside air. All around the stationary train was an expanse of dock and within seconds it was known … Continue reading →

‘We’ll have no one to replace you in the team,’ Braund said to Dan as lemons were being sucked at half-time, under the shade of the one solitary banyan tree. ‘With about half a ton of forward line you won’t … Continue reading →

He and Charlie were out on the Salt Range on Charlie’s motor-bike, a far more practical vehicle  for this terrain than Burridge’s car. They had come out for a day’s map-reading, and with Charlie everything had to be organised. There … Continue reading →

The phone on the wall rang and B got up to answer it. ‘Is that you, Mason?’ Asked Braund’s voice. ‘Some bad news, I’m afraid. Word has just come through that Jinnah is dead. There is to be no work … Continue reading →

He sat in the small office behind a very large desk that seemed to take up most of the floor space. To his right, through the window and across a space, was the Chief Storekeeper’s office waiting for its occupant … Continue reading →

‘I just want to get back as much money as I lost,’ B said in the general discussion. ‘You don’t have to,’ said Paddy, ‘we’ve got enough between us to keep you going.’ But he was having none of Paddy’s … Continue reading →

As he walked to the bungalow after a days work in the Mining Company he could feel the weight of the gun. It made him uneasy as though, now he had agreed to carry it, there was more likelihood of … Continue reading →