Friday, 19 September 2025

In the Village of Pepperstock Green – Chapter (097) – The Open Day Picnic

July

 

Ex RAF man Henry Nixon was 29 years old, tall, lean, and olive skinned with thick black curly hair, and was living and working in Abbottsford when his father died.

So, he decided to give up his life in town and move home.

It was by no means ideal for him to move back to village life, because since he had been away he had become a bit of a townie, but it was the right thing for him to do, even though his mother Sally tried to discourage him.

That had been more than a year earlier, and he was very settled and happy, within a few weeks he got a job as a Chauffeur with James Percival, and now he’d given up any thoughts of returning to Abbottsford.

 

The weekend after the official opening of the St Adelaide’s Reflection and Healing Retreat there was an open day for the staff and people from the village, including a Picnic in the extensive grounds.

Th open day was well attended by the villagers, who were all eager to see within the walls of the convent, and it was a real family affair with all the generations represented.

Young boys with dirty knees and footballs at their feet, giggling girls with pigtails and plaits, teenage boys awkwardly trying to interact with teenage girls, who were in turn learning to be women, old men trying to remember how to be young, old women like mutton dressed as lamb.

In fact, every age group was represented and the different social groups mixed effortlessly.

 

As it was the first such event, which Toddy Phelps hoped would be repeated annually, it was very well attended, and everyone was determined to enjoy it.

As they lived on that side of the village, Henry walked to the Retreat with his mother, Sally, and his two young nieces, Donna and Elsie, their parents would be joining them a little later.

They were not the only villagers taking Shanks’s pony on the day and as they walked towards the retreat he was admiring some of the attractive girls along the way.

A girl in a figure-hugging blue dress, and he admired it as the fabric hugged her young curves, and he marveled at its apparent seamlessness, and the straight honey coloured hair caressing her neck as she walked ahead of him, until she stopped to talk with a friend.

His attention was then drawn to the friend who had a curious hair style with her brown hair worn short on one side and long on the other, and she had a silk scarf around her throat which he assumed was probable covering a love bite or a zit, as it was a warm day, certainly too warm for a scarf.

His eyes then settled on an absolute stunner in a floral dress and flat shoes who was peering at him from beneath her straw covered fringe.

They were then overtaken by two middle aged women who clearly didn’t understand the picnic dress code, one was wearing a smart jacket and a pleated skirt and the other had on a silver sparkling dress with long lace sleeves.

However as attractive as the assembled ladies were they didn’t hold his attention long, because none of them “rang his bell” and he doubted he would see anyone at the open day that would.

However, that all changed when he and his family settled on a picnic blanket on the grassy meadow.

As soon as the Nixon’s sat down, Henry was struck by the look of a girl with no bra who walked up and sat down on the neighbouring picnic blanket.

However, it wasn’t just the fact that she was braless beneath her blue vest top, nor was it just that she was beautiful, and she was very definitely that, with a seductive smile, and fine soft brown hair with flyaway strands which were turned gold by the summer sun.

It wasn’t even her short floral skirt and the remarkable legs that descended from it.

The combination of all of those attributes certainly blew him away, but it was the way in which she looked at him and then averted her gaze with a coy smile and a blush, when he caught her, that was what made her so incredibly alluring.

 

Henry found out from his mother, Sally, who was now on the staff at the Retreat in an admin role, that the girl was called Holly Mayston, and she lived and worked at St Adelaide’s as a yoga teacher and that she was 27 years old, and most importantly of all that she was unattached.

 

After the food was consumed, Donna and Elsie went off to play with the other children, Sally cleared everything away and small groups formed among the adults to chat, then Henry noticed Holly, the braless beauty had wandered off but hadn’t noticed where.

 

In fact, she had gone off alone towards the woods, because it was the hottest part of the afternoon and apart from anything else Holly was hoping to find a little cool respite beneath the dense canopy, and she was not disappointed.

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