Heads I Win Tails You Lose

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Lynne Fox. Heads I Win Tails You Lose

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HEADS I WIN;

TAILS YOU LOSE

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Barry’s address is on the outskirts of town, a little way out in the countryside. I hate this kind of rural driving, finding that I’m holding my breath every time I negotiate a blind bend. I just know that at some point I’m going to encounter a tractor taking up the whole road and will have to back up for miles.

I don’t know what I expect to find but it isn’t the rough looking smallholding in front of me. I can see a few goats, hens and a couple of pigs milling about a large enclosure. The house is a two up, two down farm cottage but without the proverbial roses around the door, chocolate box image. Glancing up, the roof tiles are moss covered and in places, clumps of grasses poke their heads above the guttering. Heavy rains must cascade over the side, my assumption evidenced by a three feet wide shadow of damp running down the wall to the left of the front door.

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