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- Título
- Bumpy Roads
- Autor
- Brian Wilson
- Editorial
- Trafford Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2013
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1490713271
- ISBN 13
- 9781490713274
- Peso del artículo
- 461 gramos
Bumpy Roads is a collection of thirty-five entertaining and mostly humorous short stories comprising of life experiences in which we can all relate. Life travels many roads. Some are bumpy and may not be welcomed experiences, but they are also often the funniest times in our life. These are the times to cherish, reflect on, build upon, and sometimes, are a catalyst for moving on.
Bumpy Roads reminds us that life is unpredictable and change, inevitable-new faces, places, and unique experiences. Life can be embarrassing, demanding, challenging, yet rewarding. We largely decide our own destiny by the directions we decide to take.
This book sets out to entertain the reader, yet provoke thought. It is my hope that you, the reader, will enjoy these stories.
. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.“Sinopsis” puede pertenecer a otra edición de este título.
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BUMPY ROADS
A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
By BRIAN WILSON, Rachel CoopTrafford Publishing
All rights reserved.
Contents
| PART ONE—Stories By Brian Wilson........................................... | 1 |
| Shaky Grounds.............................................................. | 3 |
| The Tree................................................................... | 9 |
| Just Water Under the Bridge................................................ | 13 |
| A Case in Time............................................................. | 19 |
| The Journey................................................................ | 25 |
| Uk Road Rage............................................................... | 31 |
| Happy View Hospital........................................................ | 39 |
| Three Granddads............................................................ | 43 |
| Up the Garden Path......................................................... | 49 |
| Zimbabwe—Land of Disappointment............................................ | 55 |
| The Past Revisited......................................................... | 59 |
| On a Crusade............................................................... | 63 |
| Solomon's Gold............................................................. | 75 |
| Sydney Adventure........................................................... | 79 |
| Garage Sale................................................................ | 85 |
| PART TWO—Stories By Rachel Coop............................................ | 93 |
| Memory Lane................................................................ | 95 |
| Flatting Dramas............................................................ | 99 |
| Flight 00Xyzk2............................................................. | 103 |
| Sprinkleening.............................................................. | 109 |
| First Date................................................................. | 113 |
| PART THREE—Stories by Brian Wilson......................................... | 123 |
| The Bully.................................................................. | 125 |
| All on a Sunny Day......................................................... | 131 |
| A Memorable Sermon......................................................... | 133 |
| Wedding Worries............................................................ | 137 |
| The Three Passes........................................................... | 143 |
| The Gold Coast............................................................. | 147 |
| A Day in Shanghai.......................................................... | 153 |
| Home Alone................................................................. | 159 |
| Baby Day................................................................... | 161 |
| Death in the Family........................................................ | 165 |
| The Gardener............................................................... | 169 |
| Love Conquers All.......................................................... | 173 |
| An Anxious Moment.......................................................... | 177 |
| Beneath the Ice............................................................ | 181 |
| Crowded House.............................................................. | 185 |
CHAPTER 1
SHAKY GROUNDS
"JUST A TRUCK passing," said Alex, laughing.
"Well it's so unnerving. Every time I hear a truck passing I think,hello another one," replied Bruce, as he composed himself and withdrewhis hands from the balcony rails. Alex, meanwhile took another biteout of his Boston bun, smacked his lips, then turned to Bruce. "Don'tworry it's just another moment in time. It will soon all blow over."
Bruce reached for his cup and took a sip of tea. This did seem tohelp calm his nerves. Apart from the fear of another earthquake oraftershock, it was very pleasant sitting on the balcony eating lunch ona sunny day.
"It's all bumpy roads from now on," added Alex.
"Yes, I had noticed a lot of road works around the city. Theearthquake caused a lot of sags and bumps, as well as broken pipes."Bruce produced a ginger biscuit and dunked it into his tea then bit offthe softened biscuit end. He had learned this trick from his parents. Itseemed to be an English tradition.
"That's not quite what I was getting at," clarified Alex. "I sort ofmeant it more figuratively."
"Like the future of the cathedral after all the earthquake damage?"
"Yes, and like demolishing most of the tall buildings in the centralbusiness district," added Alex. "Then there are seven thousand plushouses in the red zone."
"All to be demolished?"
"Yes, I would think so," replied Alex, "as well as many otherdestroyed houses in other parts of the city. But enough talk aboutthe Christchurch earthquake. I hear you've been travelling your ownbumpy roads."
"Bumpy roads! Bumpy roads! More like a dead end road gettinghim to pay his rent. When we signed up Marty for the flat his partnerwas a lovely lady, though he was a skinhead with tattoos. But myuncle used to say people shouldn't stereotype, so I put aside all mypreconceptions and agreed to their tenancy."
"Bad move?"
"Say that again."
"Bad move," repeated Alex, jokingly.
"I meant figuratively," responded Bruce who was not amused.
"Anyhow, not long after renting they split up. Unfortunately it wasMarty who stayed on. We got the raw end of the deal. His ex, who wasthe mother of his children, then moved in."
"So, she was no good?"
"No, she was fine. But this relationship didn't last either. He hadn'tbeen long back with her before he was once again playing the field.Naturally, when she found out he was having an affair, she left him."
"And the flat?"
"Yes."
"Another raw deal?"
"Very much so. From there on it was all down hill." Bruce tookanother sip of tea and dunked his biscuit again. He was clearly nowagitated, this time having to steady his hand as he held the cup to hislips.
"Gee wiz, it sounds rather like the storyline of a TV soap,"commented Alex. "I have always considered soaps as rubbish and notworth watching, but I guess we live in our own little cocoons and don'trealise how differently the other half live."
"Yes, it is hard to believe. Anyhow everything turned to custard. Heseemed to mix with the wrong crowd and from there payments ceaseddespite promises he would pay the rent owing."
"So you took him to the Tenancy Tribunal several weeks ago?"
"I had no choice but to evict him. I can't afford to have a tenantwho doesn't pay his rent, especially when the bank still expects me topay the interest on the mortgage. These tenants think we are rippingthem off, but they don't realise landlords have overheads like rates,insurance and mortgage interest."
"The Tenancy Tribunal?" prompted Alex.
"Well quite straight forward; just a lower level court—an adjudicatorinstead of a judge, and a stenographer to record the proceedings."
"Yes, but what happened?"
"I presented my case and a folder of evidence and the tenantresponded. Then the adjudicator asked a few questions and arrived ather decision."
"So he turned up then?"
"Yes, but late. The adjudicator wasn't at all impressed. At the endof the hearing she issued an eviction notice and an order for him torepay outstanding rents."
"And the eviction date?" questioned Alex, as he unwrapped anotherBoston bun.
"By midnight tonight, Alex."
"So you will be going around at midnight to check out yourproperty?"
"No, we will go around tomorrow morning and I will update younext week at work."
The next morning Bruce and his wife arrived at the flat. Brucecarefully lifted up the flap of the letterbox and suspiciously peered in.
"Sweetie, what on earth are you doing?" asked Janice.
"Well, I asked Marty to leave the key in the box, but you neverknow he may have put a mouse trap in there."
"Oh, for goodness sake, you are paranoid. We've been very goodlandlords. He is hardly likely to be out to get us."
"Well, it's better to be safe than sorry."
Bruce retrieved the key from the box and both walked down thedrive to the house. Bruce tried the front door. It was locked.
"There you go a tenant who leaves the key as instructed and locksthe door behind him can't be too bad. Sweetie, if he was going to trashthe house then he wouldn't have made an appearance at the tribunal."
Nevertheless, Bruce somewhat apprehensively turned the doorknoband edged the door slowly open.
As the door parted, they were greeted by a fowl smell of cigarettefumes.
"They were told they weren't to smoke inside," complained Bruce."This smell will be hard to remove. It will have permeated the ceiling,walls, drapes, carpets ..."
"Carpets! My new carpet; they've put ink all over my new carpet....and, and my drapes—my nice new drapes as well."
"That's not all," growled Bruce. "The imbecile has put his fistthrough all the internal doors and kicked holes in the bedroom wall."
".... And the mirror where is it? Sweetie, they've stolen your mum'svaluable mirror. I did wonder if it was safe leaving it in the house whenwe were renting it out."
Bruce and Janice spent the whole weekend cleaning up the house. Itwas a pigsty. The carpets required vacuuming, the fowl-smelling drapesdry cleaning and rubbish scattered over the floors needed removing.Outside, the lawns were just as bad. They obviously hadn't been cutfor at least a month. Trips had to be made to the rubbish dump as thetenants had thoughtfully left an expired refrigerator and other rubbisharound the property. There were three council rubbish bins available:green for organic, red for trash and yellow for recyclable. However, thetenants were obviously colour-blind and the bins required reloading.These had to be the tenants from hell.
Bruce was pleased to come back to work after a trying weekend. Hehad plenty to tell Alex at lunchtime. It was a wet day so Bruce joinedAlex at a cafeteria table instead of braving the balcony.
Alex pushed aside the newspaper he had been reading and lookedup at Bruce. "So, have you been to the police? After all, it was not justvandalism. It was also theft."
"Yes, but the police weren't that interested. Apparently, it is notsufficient evidence of theft even though the house had deadlocks,windows locks, and the tenants had the only key to the house. Youhave to prove they took the mirror. Anyhow, with the tribunal rulinghis name will be mud. No landlord will want him."
Alex pushed the paper in front of Bruce "They certainly won't. Didyou see the front page of the newspaper? There's a lot in there about theshortage of houses since the earthquake and look, here is a solo mumwho has tried everywhere and cannot get a house to rent. Apparently,a lot of people are sleeping in cars."
"Yes, but look how many houses this woman lived in over the lastyear," pointed out Bruce. "She was obviously a bad tenant to have beenin so many houses. I certainly won't be taking her in as my next tenant."
Alex grabbed the paper back turning the page. "Here's anothercase. This bloke has had to resort to living in a corner of his mate'sgarage surrounded by all his lifetime possessions."
"Let me see?" said Bruce, reaching over to look at the picture andread the article.
"My gosh, that's Marty and there's my mirror."
CHAPTER 2
THE TREE
STANDING TALL IN all its majesty is the eucalyptus tree. It is anicon upon a house-dotted hillside; the four huge trunks towering fortymetres and dwarfing the neighbouring houses. Crowned with a generousarray of branches and emerald-type leaves it is indeed a royal sight tobehold. For those living on the plains below, it is something naturaland pleasing to the eye, as opposed to a hill completely smothered byhouses.
Perched high on the hill above the frost line overlooking theNew Zealand Canterbury Plains, the tree enjoys the mild winters andwarm summer months. These are not too dissimilar to its Australianhomeland, though there are no koala bears to feast upon its leaves.
Throughout the year its welcoming branches provide a sturdy perchfor the large indigenous New Zealand woodpigeon; their presencebeing announced by a distinctive "whooshing" sound as their wingsslice through the air. These shiny green-purple birds, with a white bib-like breast, enjoy swooping and occasionally making steep parabolicdives as they fly between the high branches of the eucalyptus tree andother tall trees across the valley.
Autumn has now passed and with the onset of winter they arejoined by the call of the indigenous bellbird; always in fine concert voice.Delighting the neighbourhood and echoing through the valley theirchorus is likened to the chiming of bells. These birds are much smallerthan the woodpigeon and enjoy the safety of the higher branches. Themales are an olive green, while the females a duller olive brown.
Their finale is reached as summer approaches. The tree nowprepares for the pains of summer as the hot, dry northwest wind ripsthrough its branches and strips the trunks of bark. Broken branches,leaves and stripped bark are uplifted and scattered over neighbouringproperties, clogging roof guttering, and littering paths and gardens.
The neighbours then do not share the same sentiment towards thetree. They want it cut down. It creates work clearing guttering, pathsand gardens. But this is a highly valued tree under a protection order.It cannot be removed. For them this tree is a nuisance; obscuring viewsof the city, and endangering those living nearby. Besides, if the treeis removed then some properties would increase in value and somesections might be suitable for subdivision.
It is now late February and autumn is approaching. The strongdry northwest winds will become less frequent and the tree will regainsome reprieve from the strong winds. Suddenly, the ground shakesviolently as a powerful earthquake explodes from the depths. Theeucalyptus tree shakes in motion, and in the process tears a root to oneof its four trunks. As the shaking continues the wound becomes deeperand more serious. It seems that life is drawing to an end as the trunkstarts to slide into a tilt, and with a death-rattle creek it finally seversfrom the remaining tree. The trunk falls slowly and gracefully, beforesmashing its way through boundary fences. It comes to rest acrossfour neighbours' properties. One of the smaller branches falls onto aneighbour's Mercedes leaving the owner with an expensive dent. Thetree is now crippled having lost one of its four trunks with the otherthree continuing to precariously remain upright. A large aftershockand death will come knocking as the remaining trunks part company.
The neighbours are not pleased with the pending danger of theremaining trunks falling onto a house. They are now able to persuadethe authorities to have the protection order lifted. Little time is wasted inorganising tree fellers and wood merchants, and their plan is executed.The once magnificent tree is unseated from its hillside throne and isleft lifeless on the ground. Various insect types are quick to infiltrateits armour and feast on the tender meat underneath. The once richgreen emerald leaves start to fade and curl in the sun, to eventually rotaway—earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; such is life.
In the place of the bellbirds the obtrusive high pitched, penetratingsound of chainsaws echo for over a week through the valley andneighbourhood, as the wood merchants cut through the metre-thicktrunks. This will make excellent firewood and will be warmly receivedby many families over winter. With large commercial chainsaws thewood merchants slice the trunks into rings that are wheeled over toa wood-splitting machine. This axe-head shaped cutter draws downsplitting the rings again and again into a number of fire logs. Trailerload upon trailer load of fire logs are carted away. The wood merchantsare very happy to have a free supply of firewood.
Once the wood merchants have taken the best cuts, homehandymen with toy chainsaws emerge from out of the depths of theneighbourhood. They take what is left leaving only a trail of sawdust.This too, doesn't remain for long as green-fingered neighbours appearwith sacks and shovels.
The neighbours are happy with the tree having been removed.But the woodpigeons never return and the neighbourhood does missthe warmth of the bellbirds chorus over winter. All that remains is anempty, boring section with the violated carcass, of a once majestic treerotting into the ground.
CHAPTER 3
JUST WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
"COME ON," BELLOWED Laura. "We're on a tight schedule."However, Gary was very laid back and would not be rushed. There wasplenty of time. A quick visit to his daughter's house, then they wereoff to the theatre. He needed to look smart. Laura had talked him outof wearing a suit; her preference being casual. In the absence of a suithis favourite navy work trousers would suffice. He took pride in hisappearance and searched out a matching shirt and tie.
Laura now looked somewhat distraught after checking her watch.She held more firmly to a plastic bag of baby items she had put togetherfor her daughter.
"Come on."
Gary sauntered towards the doorway checking as he went thathe had the tickets for the play. He loved live theatre and was lookingforward to this latest play everyone was raving about. But first theywere to visit their daughter.
"It will be good seeing the new renovations Kay and Herbert havedone," commented Gary as he closed the door behind them.
"And the baby," reminded Laura.
"Yes of course."
"Look Hayley, here's Granddad and Grandma," announced Kay,as Laura and Gary came through the doorway.
"Oh, isn't she cute?" commented Laura. "Look dear."
"Yep!" responded Gary. "So let's see these renovations," he added,turning towards Herbert.
"We can do that later, Dad," Kay said directing them to the lounge,where everyone took a seat.
"I must have a cuddle," said Laura placing the three-week old babyagainst her chest.
"Oh, you are a little cutie," said Laura. "What a lovely little smile."
"Dad might want a cuddle too."
"I'm sure he would love a cuddle," insisted Laura.
"No, really I'm fine," reassured Gary.
"Herbert is now also able to change nappies. Would you like tochange a nappy Dad?"
"No, granddads don't do nappies. I did my share when you childrenwere little. I will leave this job to you and Herb."
"I did the last nappy," commented Herb, who felt quite accomplishedin this big step of becoming a father.
"Here," said Laura, planting the baby onto Gary's lap.
"Now where are these renovations?"
All but Gary and the babe rose from their seats. Gary was toonervous to put the baby across his chest and follow. These newbornbabies were so delicate with their floppy little heads that needed support."Hey! What about me?"
"You're doing just fine," commented Kay.
"Looks quite the doting granddad," added Laura laughing.
"Now I know what it's like to be left holding the baby," commentedGary, as the others disappeared out the lounge doorway. Thankgoodness the baby was asleep peacefully on his lap, or was she? As theothers departed, her tiny eyes started to squint and her little jaw beganto quiver. Then the bottom lip dropped and all hell broke loose. Thebaby's pale little cheeks quickly gained colour as she bellowed. Kayquickly returned to relieve the doting granddad of his love and joy.
"You've upset little Hayley," she said picking the babe up from herfather's lap. "Ook; she's had a leak. At the time I thought Herb had putthat nappy on a bit too loose." Kay carefully took the baby away andplaced her on a change mat, apparently unconcerned about the shadeof yellow spread across the front of her dad's navy blue pants. Yellowand navy blue was not a good match.
"Don't worry, dear," commented an amused Laura, as she wipedGary's pants clean, leaving a damp wet patch. "Not quite as bad as splitpants in public, though it does look like you have had an accident. Whatwill they think at the theatre?"
"That's what I am afraid of," commented Gary. "I certainly hopeit dries out before we get there, otherwise it will be humiliating."Gary borrowed his daughter's hair dryer, but the wet patch would notdisappear. It seemed like he had been left with a stain.
On the way to the theatre, Gary stopped and purchased a newspaper.This came in quite handy when they entered the theatre as Gary wasable to hold it in front concealing his embarrassment.
(Continues...)
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Our people
COLLECTION:
We will collect names, addresses, contact details, education and employment history, identity and other background checks (which may include appropriate criminal and financial checks and confirmation of the right to work in the UK), marital status and information on next of kin and dependents, financial information (such as bank details and NI numbers), date of birth, gender, a copy of your passport and driving licence, performance information and compensation history, recruitment information (including references), salary, benefits, pension and annual leave information, disciplinary and grievance information, photographs, information about your use of our information and communications systems and CCTV footage or other information obtained through electronic means.
We may collect and use special categories of personal data as required in the carrying out of obligations and exercising specific rights of us or the data subject in the field of employment. This may include information relating to matters such as health, racial origin, religious belief and offences or alleged offences.
Personal data may be collected from you during the selection process (for example via your application form and CV) and during your employment (including holiday forms, expense claims, performance reviews, any disciplinary or grievance processes), or from third parties, including referees, health service providers, background check providers.
USE:
Personal data of our people will be used for HR administration and management, both in respect of the selection of people to work for us (including suitability, eligibility and/or fitness to work), and those who do work for us, to include learning and development, disciplinary and security (of people, offices and data) requirements, providing and liaising with benefits providers, business management and planning (including accounting and auditing), paying you and dealing with tax and NI deductions, assessing and deciding on salary reviews and compensation, conducting performance reviews and managing performance, dealing with legal disputes involving you or others, preventing fraud, monitoring your use of our information and communications systems, ensuring compliance with our policies, and equal opportunities monitoring.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
In performance of a contract with you; and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common:
where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
In respect of special categories of personal data, we may process this in the following circumstances:
in limited circumstances with your explicit written consent; and/or
where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed in the public interest (such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme), and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your (or someone else’s) interests and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about our people (or former people) in the course of our legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.
The special categories of personal data may be used in the following ways:
in relation to leaves of absence, to comply with employment and other laws;
in relation to your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to monitor, manage and administer benefits and absences;
in relation to your race, national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
DISCLOSURE:
Personal data may be transferred to service providers who support the operation of our business (such as payroll service providers), to other third parties reasonably necessary in the conduct of our business (including insurers, professional advisors, regulators). These third parties may be acting as processor, or controller of personal data in their own right.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We will normally keep personal data of applicants who we do not employ for six months after we receive it.
We will keep personal data of employees throughout your employment and normally for a minimum of six years after your employment ends.
Changes to your personal data
It is very important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please tell us if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.
Data Security
We have put in place measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those of our people and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and the ICO of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.
Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.
Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:
access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
Links from our website
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties that we permit to make such links. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We recommend that you check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.
Last amended May 2021.