nom de plumeGrainger’s own responses to people on the Forum had been punctuated with smiling faces, light-hearted ripostes and even the occasional “winking” emoji. He was clearly a change of pace from Little Bassington’s representatives of yesteryear: Grainger was a man in his late 40s now which, in local political circles, was practically the first flush of youth.
Adam found a picture of Grainger standing next to the town’s MP – a man who looked, frankly, like a shrivelled prune. Other members of Bassington District Council, whose pictures Adam also turned up, were a long parade of grey-haired, sour old men and women whose retirements were evidently being supplemented by the money they coined in from their “public service”.
One newspaper article posted on the Forum caught Adam’s eye. Th
