Who Do You Go Home To? #4 / December 18 2006
Audrey, Nelson and I were earlier returning from the shops – we’d been to buy Christmas booze and mince pies for the studio – when we met Bernard going in the opposite direction down the hill.
‘Ready for Christmas, Bernard?’ I enquired after him.
‘Will be, I’m just off to buy the ingredients,’ he told us.
‘Ingredients? What for?’ asked Nelson, ready to joke.
‘Ah-ha! For my Christmas treat, boys, Christmas treat!’ The words exploded out of him.
‘Crikey, what’s that then, Bernard?’ we both asked.
Audrey was jumping gleefully at him, her tongue trying to reach his grubby beard, but Bernard stood motionless, as still as a statue. Suddenly his face darkened, his eyes narrowed and he grew surprisingly very grave.
‘Knickerbocker Glory,’ he whispered.
Then he was gone.
Filed under Christmas / Family / Loneliness / Religion
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Nelson Galaxy / December 20th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
The mythic power of Knickerbocker Glory will rule reality after 2010.
Or will it be a mysterious black monolith?
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