On Monday the residents from the twelve Church Lane cottages were vacating in readiness for the woodworm treatment.
Only two of the tenants were fragile enough to require medical supervision, Dr Stuart Cameron was on hand to assist one of them and Nurse Victoria Pullen the other.
It was also the day that
Molly and Danny left the island for an extended holiday/research trip for the
latest Sharon Jacques book visiting among other places, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague,
Bucharest, and Bratislava.
They were going to be away
for at least ten days but had allowed for three weeks if they felt they needed
it.
It wasn’t until three days
after he visited Gilbert’s when Caroline and Austin met up for that coffee,
although it wasn’t quite what she had in mind, it was from a mobile fast-food
van down by the docks, but it wasn’t really about the coffee, although it was
surprisingly good, and that was the first of many meetings.
Matt Deighton first went to
the Galleon Coffee Shop after first moving to the island and he became a
regular customer over the coming weeks, but conversation didn’t come easy for
him, he was a quiet shy man.
But it was the only real
human contact he had outside of work that he had in the two months he’d been in
Spaniards Creek, and he was feeling really homesick.
But after seeing Jade in the
Galleon it had become the only oasis in his desert of unhappiness and he looked
forward to his daily visits and he arrived earlier and stayed longer.
It was almost the end of July
before he finally worked up the courage to ask Jade out and when he did, he
rather spat the words out at her.
He’d tried to do it twice
already that week and bottled out both times and then he walked up and down
outside the shop for half an hour before he went back in again on Wednesday.
“Hi” she said, “Back again?”
“Yes” he replied
“Two Americano’s and a
Capuchino?” she asked
“No” he barked
“Ok, so what do you want?”
Jade said cheerfully
“Pictures” he said abruptly
“Sorry?”
“Will you come to the
pictures with me?” He blurted out
“When?”
“Saturday” he replied with a
crack in his voice
Jade did like him, she even
looked forward to him coming in every day, he was a good-looking man, and he
was very sweet, but he was older than her and he wasn’t an islander, so he was
from a different background.
So she rather surprised
herself when she said “yes”
And that was how it all
began, a first date to The Forum Cinema in St Pierre to see a Mission
Impossible movie.
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