The Old Dog and the Doorstep

By JP Wright

A free introduction to life in the village of Hapeney Fen, filling the space between 'Home Economics for Girls' and 'The Elasticated Waistband'. An unfortunate connection between Violet's slipper and a steaming sign of the old dog Marcus's passage, and finding an old bike in the shed, gives Mother a mysterious thoughtful look. Kitty is despatched to the Vicar's Invitational village baking contest, where the old bike will be auctioned. She does not solve the mystery, but she does eat a lot of cake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JP Wright
• Release date: Oct 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370633319

JP Wright

JP Wright lives in the southwest of England. Between the demands of his day job, his duties as amanuensis to the Tickham girls, digging the allotment, cycling, running and spending time with his own beautiful girls, he sometimes writes for himself.

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THE OLD DOG AND THE DOORSTEP

JP WRIGHT

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Copyright 2016 JP Wright

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The Old Dog and the Doorstep

I have mentioned before, I think, that I am not normally susceptible to the urge for healthy early morning perambulations. Rolling over in bed is as much activity as I would normally consider appropriate before a fortifying layer of tea and toast has been applied to the Violet Tickham stomach wall. So I cannot tell you what should have made me choose to wander out that morning, crunching the gravel of the drive, sharpened by jewels of frost; huffing out mist that hung in the crystalline air to mimic the white lakes that lay lazy in valleys, coiled like a dragon along the ha-ha, and clung to the tree-trunks; air as crisp