Then the phone rang. Joyce was called out to work for the night as another nurse had phoned in sick. Within half an hour she was dressed, and departed... with an admonition to Natalie to take of me. Natalie saw her mother out the front door while I dreamily watched television. She awoke my curiosity when she returned to the lounge with a huge bundle of bed linen in her arms. On the carpet towards the fire Natalie spread out a large doona. She placed two stacks of pillows at the end of the doona. One day a new face would appear and then the next day an old face would be absent. Hearth Maria had left the second week after they had arrived. He had liked her, despite the fact that she wasn’t really a very friendly person. She had been replaced by Hearth Ramya.Jomo returned to work on his garden. He only a had a little more to do to clear out the weeds on the row he was now working. This was the life of a farmer, and he enjoyed it.Moswen, the man who worked the plot of land next to his. I looked at him questioningly.“Fancy a swim?”“I don’t have…”He let go of me, pulled off his t-shirt and dropped his shorts. His trainers and socks were next, though he put his trainers back on. Packing it all in the bag, he walked back to me. I wanted to put a treadmill under him or video him and play it back in slow motion. Every single model was physically more attractive, each of them with perfect definition, squarer jaws, better grooming. Not one of them held a torch to Tommy, it wasn’t his. Today though, he needed some DIY manuals on plumbing and wiring. Property development seemed to be a good direction to take his career now he was in his late thirties. He’d picked up a three bedroom detached house, in the suburbs of Cardiff, at an auction, and he was going to fix it up himself. Cerys led him through the stacks and up a level. “Do you know the title of the book you’re looking for?” Reese watched the way her skirt swished around her legs as her hips swayed. “Nope, just want to.