The Coronation Party by Norma Curtis EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Norma Curtis
- Language: English
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The air in the small Welsh town was sweet with birdsong and the wide black
Dee glittered under the old stone bridge as the steam train pulled out of the
station, trailing smoke like speech bubbles. It was mid-April and in one of the
white houses that made up Little Green Street, forty-five-year-old Tad Jones
was preparing to hold a meeting.
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Tad’s given name was Thomas Kelly Jones, but a long time ago when he
was a young poet who took himself seriously he had chosen Tad as his pen
name, seeing himself grandly as a father of words. Although to begin with it
was a source of gentle mockery, Tad became the name he was known by to
everyone, even his wife.
Tad wanted to hold the meeting to discuss plans for a Coronation party in
the street on the second day of June. He had decided to take his neighbours
into the dining room, because it seemed to him to be more official to sit
around a mahogany table, and he had placed a writing pad at the head of it for
notes. The notepad also contained his inaugural speech as self-appointed
chairman of the Coronation Party Committee. Restlessly, he straightened his
tie, smoothed his springy dark hair flat as best he could, and looked at the
time. ‘They’re late,’ he said anxiously to Helen, his English wife, eight years
younger than him.
She slid her headscarf from her fine, fair hair, took off her floral apron and
folded it carefully. ‘No, your watch is fast, Tad,’ she reminded him fondly.
It was true, Tad always kept his watch five minutes fast so he could be sure
he was never late for anything. But as a result he was quietly resentful of
anyone not on Tad time – in other words, the rest of Wales.
Tad put his flat cap over his dark wild hair and went outside and down the
path to stand on the pavement, looking for signs of life behind the net
curtains in the windows and resisting the urge to check the time again.
He tucked his hands in his pockets, rolled his weight to and fro on the balls
of his feet. It was a lovely afternoon and the sky was a cool, pale blue,
smudged with cloud. His gaze drifted along the curve of green hills that
surrounded the town, and settled on the grey ruins of Crow Castle that stood
guard over it. The history that castle had seen! And now history was being
made again. ‘The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second,’ he said aloud
in wonderment, feeling the majestic words on his tongue.
‘What’s that now?’ asked a stern voice behind him, startling him. ‘Talking
to yourself, Tad? That’s a bad sign.’
It was Emlyn Kremlin, his neighbour from across the road, a staunch
socialist with a Teddy Boy quiff, which Emlyn claimed was natural because
he’d inherited a cowlick from his father. As his father had gone bald in his
early twenties there was no one to say otherwise.
‘Come on in, Emlyn! I was beginning to wonder if everyone had forgotten
about it.’
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