Coloured in by my 3 year old son at nursery and the caption reads “I like nursery because I like listening to the stories”. Happy Mummy 🙂
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The Girl from the Sea – Chapter 17
The Girl from the Sea – Chapter Seventeen
It was a weekend and the inn was packed with people looking forward to not working tomorrow. Pete and the Captain were sitting in a booth watching the comings and goings, sipping their ale and looking like the regulars they were. Faces around them were familiar, people they had known forever – the strangers stood out like sore thumbs. Two young lads were standing at the bar with untouched tankards in front of them. One of them broke away from the bar and started moving around the groups of tables asking questions and moving on to the next. He arrived at the table where Pete and the Captain were smoking their pipes.
Continue readingThe Girl from the Sea – Chapter 7
The Girl from the Sea – Chapter Seven
They made an odd scene, sitting around the fire like that. No one was using a chair. Mrs Captain was cuddled around the mysterious girl. The Captain stood awkwardly by the mantelpiece with a pan in one hand and a bottle of rum in the other. Joe was kneeling at his mermaid’s feet trying to deal with the fact that his mermaid had feet in the first place. No one spoke. The fire crackled. The Captain took another sip from the bottle and waited. He was waiting for the inquisition which he knew was coming. Mrs Captain was glaring at him from her place on the floor. Continue reading