The boys gathered at the bowser soon after breakfast.
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Standing immediately before it, the four boys stared up at the cylindrical tank. It dwarfed them, even Dob. Bum set off round the contraption, reappearing moments later from behind one of the four wheels that were set one at each corner. The wheel alone was only slightly shorter than Bum himself.
‘Tyres are OK,’ he grinned, ‘slightly soft, but apart from this one,’ he put his hand on the offending rubber, ‘should be alright for moving.’
J sat back in his chair, his eyes momentarily unfocusing on the plans on the desk before him. Only two days ago he’d been on the beach with his cousins, playing cricket and football when the tide allowed and in and out of the sea whenever they felt like it. Life was all holiday, sandwiches and pop at regular intervals, through endless days that ended at twilight with an evening meal in the large house on Anglesey that was always rented for those two weeks of the year.
An adventure story for boys and girls
Onthebrynk, in collaboration with the illustrator Riddle, is excited to be able to offer a new weekly serial in September exclusively for loyal readers.
You know how it is. You’ve let things slide a bit, taken your eye off the round bouncy thing, failed to keep across it all etc etc and now there was going to be a reckoning …… and consequences.
Episode 18 (of 18)
Geoffrey was waiting for me, sitting in his car in the yard. I checked myself on the path, just inside the foliage that surrounded the clearing and stared apprehensively at the back of his head. What did he want now?
Episode 16 (of 18)
Yuri leaped from the cab of what looked like a small coach and ramming his fedora on to his head walked briskly towards my open door and a half dressed me.
‘Quick Boryslav, we must move quickly.’
‘Oh yes … please come …’
Yuri swept passed me and straight into the ‘office’.
Episode 15 (of 18)
Then I got really, really, lucky, although at the time it seemed like a rather mixed blessing.
Episode 14 (of 18)
‘I don’t think that’s going to work Bo,’ was her not unexpected response to my proposal that once the report was finished we could make it clear that there were no recommendations for further action and maybe my contract could be terminated.
