A Walk in the Country

An R.T. Mason inspired story from Blushes 41, although the prose style doesn’t quite hit the heights of the master himself. ‘I think I might take Julie out for a walk,’ Harold Pinkford, looking in the sitting room, informed his wife. ‘It’s a nice morning and I think she could do with a spot of exercise.’ Sylvia Pinkford, sitting in her favourite armchair and stroking the cat, looked up and smiled. ‘Just as you like, dear. She’s your girl of course. And I’m sure a little exercise would do her good. Yes, why don’t you?’ She smiled good-humouredly. Harold was so much more contented now he’d got the girl. He was that age of course, mid-fifties, when a man could get seriously bored with his life. And especially when, as in Harold’s case, he had taken early retirement. That was partly why he’d taken early retirement of course, to get a girl on the National Domestic Service and be able to really devote his time to her, to really enjoy he...