Tell Me a Story, Grand Dad

By Nev White

Stories that will fascinate children and give comfort and happiness in a book that is easy read with accepted mannerism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781469135113

Nev White

Nev White is a keen author and an artist who has travelled extensively through Europe while in the Royal Air Force. He has seen many areas of the Second World War conflicts in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. With that experience, he can write about actual places and dates. He is widowed with a family and grandchildren in mind. They encouraged him to write a series of books entitled “The Grandad Series.”

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Copyright © 2011 by Nev White.

ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4691-3510-6

                   Ebook                                      978-1-4691-3511-3

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

This book was printed in the United States of America.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Story 1 Hills of Gold

Chapter 1 Difficult Times

Chapter 2 Future Plans

Chapter 3 Spring and Its Beautiful Birth

Chapter 4 Blue Rock and Hawk’s Beak

Story 2 Ten o’clock Horses

Chapter 1 Memories

Story 3 Five Pence Piece

Chapter 1 Money in Your Pocket

Story 4 When I Was a Lad

Chapter 1 Short Trousers and Mucky Face

Story 5 A Country Walk

Chapter 1 Out and About

Story 6 Please Daddy Come Home.

Chapter 1 How You Are Missed

Story 7 Santa

Chapter 1 ‘Santa Who’

Story 8 Grand dad’s Greenhouse

Chapter 1 See Yeah God Willing

Preface

I am indebted to my Grandchildren who bring so much happiness and inspire me to write a book of short stories some factual and some fictional, all interesting that will bring smiles and laughter and questions on how things were when I had grandparents’.

Stories that will fascinate children and give comfort and happiness in a book that is easy read with accepted mannerism’

With only good intentions not to offend anyone. All material used in this book should be accepted for what it is short stories of fact and fiction and not to embarrass anyone of any religion, colour, race, or physical makeup if in doing so please accept my apology.

Tell Me a Story—Granddad.

Nev. White

Acknowledgements

My thanks to my brothers and sister, my daughter Jenny, and grandchildren in assisting me in ideas there overall involvement is gratefully appreciated.

Tell Me a Story, Grand dad

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Nev. White

Story 1

Hills of Gold

Chapter 1

Difficult Times

Katie was the only daughter to Jon and Helen. They lived in a nice, neat cottage tucked into the mountain side amongst a dense woodland of pine trees with a lovely aroma of wild flowers throughout the year, a kaleidoscope of scenery, a most beautiful place to live, unspoilt by the invasion of development and space—a quiet place, several miles from nearest community.

Katie’s dad and mum worked very hard, maintaining a living from small livestock and little farming, with antiquated machinery; all these contributed to a difficult life.

Jon, Katie’s dad was a good-looking man, much appreciated amongst the villagers for the sermons he gave on Sundays from his position of Methodist lay preacher, a position he took over from his dad, who helped to finance the church many years ago when plans were passed for the church to be built.

Jon would toil from morn to sunset, making market once a week with produce from his farm and eggs, and home-baking made from Katie’s mum’s kitchen. A large open stove fuelled with pine logs gave off a inviting warmth throughout the kitchen.

Helen, Katie’s mum would be up at crack of dawn to bake bread, pies, cakes, pastries, anything that would sell and help out the family budget. When smoke was bellowing out from the tall red brick chimney and drifted across the valley, it added to the most beautiful aroma that nature could provide; the villagers certainly knew when Helen was baking.

Katie helped her mum as much as possible till tired, and at night-time would retire to her room; her bedroom was a cosy