WORK TOP & MIRANDA

Summer arrived, marked more by the date than by any noticeble change in the weather. John patiently unstacked the deck chairs in the cold sand. Jane sold ice cream from a kiosk to optimistic holidayers. 20 years later they still spent their summers on the seafront. Their kids, encouraged by nostalgic grandparents, took donkey rides under the pier and back again and again and again. In 2008 a chip shop on the pier was the fuse for a fire that ravaged the structure, after the blaze safety concerns forced the demolition of Weston’s Grand Pier. In 2009 Miranda, John and Jane’s daughter, was close to the limit of her budget for fixing up her house. She’d been given some cabinet doors, saved from a school bonfire by her boyfriend’s mum but Miranda’s kitchen still had no work top. A reclamation yard in Wells was predictably expensive. Miranda asked if they had anything else in the back of the shop. The owner said he thought not…unless she was interested in wood from an old pier.

20 Aug 2013