Strangers not on a train
Before I ventured to Bodnant Gardens Mary and I visited the Horizon Cafe on Colwyn Bay’s Promenade. You still cannot sit on the outside tables there, but the cafe does the best brewed coffee and so I treated myself to a grande and Mary to a single sausage . We sat on the raised flower beds and watched the sea. The woman with the Welsh Terrier stopped. I had met her before several times and she commented how neat Mary looked. Her Bertie looked scruffy and unkept and remained uninterested in Mary as he always seemed to be The woman stopped intent on talking. She wore a straw hat and dungarees and looked around sixty I wasn’t bothered one way or another . The conversation flowed immediately to lockdown. The woman asked if I was furloughed and I told her where I worked. She had lost her job in a solicitors office last year, she told me but didn’t miss it She also asked if there were many men working as nurses at the hospice as she presumed it was more a m...