He had two and then moved on to the new shop that he and Ross had discovered at Christmas, but he went straight there, he didn’t want to be wandering around the village all evening on a wild goose chase dictated by his loose change.
She treated him very politely, but the shop had become much busier, so he sat outside alone, had one beer, wrote some more notes on how to apportion the rest of his life and then made for the hotel, hoping for some decent conversation.
“Hi Ross, how’re you doing?”
“OK, you haven’t just come from home then?”
“No, I’ve been for a walk. Why’s that?”
“Oh, I was going to call you out for a drink, but I thought you were staying at home trying to get some work done, so I didn’t do it. How’s the baby?”
“She was fine when I left the house.”
“Ah, so you don’t know
