Mum's first night at the Mayfield B & B
Mum finally, acutely schizoprenic since 1960, gives in. Father has tormented her with his jibes, his constant badgering. She leaves 8 South Parade, she can't bear it any more. The house she has made home, from 1953 when we moved in from the Wansford countryside to the town.
She accepts the offer of a bed, whilst she sorts things out. She doesn't sleep too well and comes down quietly carefully in the morning, down to your kitchen. It may be seven thirty.
She's wanting to make a cup of tea. Down you come,'Huh' you snarl at her, or at least it's not a welcoming greeting at all ... 'Huh, suppose you want something do you?'
Yes John H Davis, this was my Mum's recollection of her first day at Mayfield B & B. And that's the truth John Davis, that's how she recalls it JHD. Ask her!
Whilst I may remember you for this debacle, and the angst it has brought upon my family (that does not include YOU Davis) I CANNOT ever forget or forgive you for speaking to my Mum in that way in those circumstances, which were not of her making. She IS and remains the MOTHER of your wife JHD. Shame be upon you my brother. Shame
In Italy, where I spent many happy years among Italian families, do you know what they'd do to you piccolo mio??
May the Prophet, God bless and protect him,strike me if I should err!
That is the way you treated my little old Irish Mum Mr D. These things don't just blow away in some Fenland breeze John Davis, they remain, they linger. She will not forget that incident. To you, it's like swatting a fly, don't matter. To us, it do matter JHD, it do fratellino mio, it do matter!
This sets the tone for the way you treated my parents in general JHD I reckon.
Shame on you.
Where were we? (p) That's it, I remember............. .your future profession..... A B & B you ask. - nah, better not JHD
John Henry (hospitality we are talking about in case you forget!!!) HOSPITALITY. a warm and giving heart, a welcome, in trouble?.. let me help! You, JHD, have sent your little wifey, my beloved sister, to us few times, the first I recall, was Rome. You were leaping about then preparing for an invasion, the army thought it likely,you were somewhere in Germany soldiering. She came to Rome with one of your little twingoes, I forget which one. She had NO MONEY JHD. No brass. NONE. She came without a Deutche Mark mate?! We were not managing well at that time and things were tight, you know what I mean JHD. Never the less I hope we were able to be hospitable. I am sure we were. That's the way we were brought up. She had warm and welcoming tea for breakfast, THAT MUCH I am sure of fratellino mio.
Next time - Vetralla - 2008 was it. No JHD, Mummy and Nooomi didn't stay with us. They came though and welcome they were. But the house was too small. WE rented a beautiful medieval 1st floor apartment from Fulvio with views accross the main piazza. All modernised it is, balcony too, all mod cons. He lets it, It cost 250 Euros for the week JHD and we paid. Nooomi enjoyed the shopping. Rome, Etruscans? Nah thanks Uncle Peter, not this lifetime ta!!
There's really no lesson here for you John unfortunately (see P436 for that). You just do not understand, 'soul' is a meaningless word to you, it just does not figure in your vocabulary. Why do I waste my breath?? Your replacement is SOLE. Something affixed to the bottom of your bootiful black army size 10 boot
But, you know, treating Mum with that kind of a welcome... well .. she will not forget it, I will not forget it habibi
But we do laugh at your expense when the story is told....chortle down the road mon ami!.... I almost bought an orange juice /.. We have to laugh at you - what else is there??
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Scene 22........, Now we leap energetically on .....The Scenario you ask
.. Well it's a mucky maundy Monday at Mayfield....
A marching song sounds out to herald in anuffer dirty Dogsforpe day , even brighten the prevailing boom and gloom mood at the Mayfield B & B
Yes 'tis He, Johny has it on his new Megaboom Military Version Ipod, full whack
He decends the stairs daintly to breakfast,boots slung round his neck by the laces, already ready, always alert ... he ignores the other guests, hurro hurroo...,
Skool beckons soon dammit, cursed life 'avin to face them little xxxs
Why ent I a Officer , why didn't I stay in??? Why damn it? He asks these questions quizically, they're rhetorical of course; whilst stamping his foot right 'ard and narrowly missing the cat's Meisen cornflakes bowl in the middle of the table? Break that and he knows Calligoola will 'ave 'im! It's the only remnant of the 66 piece set that survives, all gone aduring the Girbil attack at Wock Road, bally Geerbulls daMMITTT!! (BACK TO jOHNI...) None of the guests answers! Most drift off to contemplate in the Potting Shed, or read The Iliad by the Putrid Pond.
(Anger there is you see , J has to go to Ortnot School to teach, he HATES IT with a bally vengeance)
'That little swine soddin' Jones I swear....
I'll get the snotty nosed wossock!
I'll smash me bleedin' x into his x'
Ed. Better not Johny it's illeegul these days, as you found out!!.. and,(smiles sweetly)and, after all, Yuletide is nigh'
'Good tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy'....... tinkly sounds from handbells drift in through the open window, the carol singers Johny, we see the first snowflakes of the year are falling too..... 'It's them Caffedral wollars agin' Henry with their soddin' tambourines!'
'Get the Old Bill on yer line will ya? Noise infrigament ennit?'
(Footnote - whilst the Sally Army, in uniform, is welcome at Mayfield, there are NO mincepies and NO mulled wine for them Caffy gits in their poncey robes !!' - Ed)
Breakin' NEWS
Result, full time) : Mayfield Road RFC 47.5 v. P'boru Police Bloos 0
Somehow, the Police just cannot win against Johni's boys this year, despite spending £35.75 on a new striker from Whittle by the March!! (reports our sports correspondent)
KITCHEN!!!!!!!!br>
'Did you say 3 or 4 minutes? (oeufs Ballantine we guess) Toast's cummin tooo'....'.
JHD's Folk tooones - 'Johny I hardly knew ya' - is at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUTHcjiZGo
Hurrooo..................Hurroooo!!!! (pie and drums echoe down the street, fade out now..)
Carol singers at Mayfield Road