टैग: level crossing

We keep the rules taped inside the cupboard where the winding handle lives, typed up by our gran in 1994 and added to since in three different hands. The tape's gone yellow and lifts at one corner,…

The sound was a foghorn. I was sure of it, that low double note rolling off the water, the kind the container ships used to give near the lock gates when I was a kid. Then I saw the barrier arm…

You asked me to start from the beginning, so I'll start with the washing. It was a Tuesday, I'm fairly sure, because bins go out Tuesdays on our road and I remember stepping over the box when I…