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how difficult it was to fit everyone in. “What about you?”
“My parents have a routine on Christmas Day,” Gareth said. “They go to the countryside and each of them climbs a different hill and then they look at each other through binoculars while they eat turkey sandwiches.”
“Are you joking?”
“When Mum and Dad split up, they agreed that as long as neither of them met anyone else, they would still get together on Christmas day and have lunch. And as they both owned good binoculars, the method was obvious.”
“And are you invited?” said Tabatha.
“I alternate between the two of them. I get a nice walk up a hill and a look through the binoculars as well, if I’m lucky.”
“Who makes the sandwiches?”
It was a good question. Most people asked what they did when it rained.
Tabatha was the first person who had really under- stood.
David Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Man- chester. He is the author of Sawn-off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), The Half-life of Songs (2010) and his latest collection of short stories, More Sawn-Off Tales ( 2013).
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