Imagine –
You’re 14-15, the summer holidays stretch before you but your family can’t afford to go anywhere. You and five mates decide on a visit to a very large, very private and very overgrown estate where you find a perfect place for an illicit camp. And you manage to bend truths enough to persuade parents to let you go.
Two days later you meet a dog, whose owner chucks you out.
Circumstances in your home town mean you have to make sure you’re not seen around. So you have to return to the estate – and lay low there.
Then the dog finds you. His owner needs help and you save his life, and discover his secrets. But the adult gang you’re trying to avoid track you down one night.
From these beginnings start a series of Interesting Times where you discover hidden strengths, abilities, friendships, self reliance, dependability and perhaps wisdom.
Just don’t mention truffles
Bus and coach operator, Scout Leader, school caretaker, theatre manager, bellringer, NCI watchkeeper, Bluebell Railway guard, Facebook contribuor, author... Thank goodness they didn't all happen at the same time: he's retired from one or two of them anyway. Richard Wright is old enough to know better but does his best to do unusual things.
He lives in Seaford, Sussex, England with his wife.