Thursday, 13 September 2012
4pm. Sandra took the air freshener out of her desk drawer
and sprayed the room liberally. The stench of teenage sweat was immediately
masked by Glade - the scent of the rainforest. Teaching was probably not the most
prudent choice of career for someone who hated children she reflected once
again. But, Sandra loved the holidays and their potential for visiting to
museums, collecting shells from the beach at Morecambe, and spending all
afternoon looking out of her attic window on the off chance that the handsome
silver-haired gentleman from number sixty four, across the road, would be out
in his garden. He always seemed to decide to do his gardening during a thunder
storm, and Sandra loved to watch him straining to trim the unruly privet hedge
at the front, or exerting his dominance over the bush outside his front door,
the rain dripping down his face and running off the wax jacket he wore that
made him look a little like an older Prince Charles...
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