Charlie Gibb"s home was a converted railway passenger carriage that stood close to the sawmill. It was bought by his grandfather from British Railways in the sixties, when large quantities of old rolling stock were being sold off. It was lifted into place by an enormous crane. Buying the carriage had been cheaper than building a house, and planning permission back then had been straightforward. Ted Gibb had been a local character and got his own way with the planning authority. No doubt because he wasn"t an albino, Charlie often thought to himself.
Charlie had not yet been born, but he had seen the photographs his teenage father had taken of the grand arrival of the railway carriage. A business and a home had been provided, which had saved Charlie from competing in the non-albino world. G
