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<strong>The</strong> fucking mug who was paying, that’s who.<br />

<strong>By</strong> the time the weekend had rolled around guilt and the realisation that things<br />

needed to be done on the cheap led me to agreeing to hiring or well, paying<br />

Elly’s Granddad’s friend’s son and his crew. <strong>The</strong> electrician was an old friend<br />

of Elly’s Mum and the doors had already been fitted by an actual professional<br />

who gave a receipt and everything.<br />

I knew he was a professional because we made an appointment, he came,<br />

measured up, came back and fitted the doors. That is how things should work. I<br />

knew there were some sensible business people in every country, unfortunately<br />

that did not extend to the son’s of friend’s of Granddad’s of women with foreign<br />

lovers. No the roofers should have turned up on horseback with their six-<br />

shooters holstered to their hips because they were cowboys plain and simple.<br />

We visited Elly’s Aunt and Uncle’s come her Grandparents the weekend before<br />

they should have started and I was warmly welcomed. I thought that it was<br />

because they really liked me, maybe they just liked me pouring more vodka<br />

money into the village.<br />

We had come not for a visit really but to collect one of the dogs. A black and<br />

brown one, at least he’d look like an Alsatian even if he was pint sized. We had<br />

already prepared by buying a food and water bowl, a lead and some toys. We

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