On the seventh day of Christmas Chris Stovell adds to the RNA tree...
My parents rarely took holidays when my sister and I were
growing up; there simply wasn’t enough money to go round. In later life, however, there was no stopping
them and my dad took great pleasure in the growing number of pins in his travel
map of every place they’d visited. I
love this nativity scene, which they brought back from Peru for me, not just
for itself and because it’s so jolly, but because it reminds me of Mum and
Dad’s beaming faces (under Peruvian hats!) when we picked them up from the
airport.
One of the highlights of that holiday had been their river trip
up the Amazon. The skipper must have
decided to give them added value as the trip went on far longer than my parents
had anticipated. With only bananas and
Coke to sustain them – generously provided by their host - but no loo on board,
by the time they disembarked they felt as if they’d travelled the entire length
of the river. They always roared with
laughter when they talked about it, but it was a very long time before either
of them could eat bananas again!
Chris's latest book...
When is it time to stop running?
Coralie Casey is haunted by her
past. Deciding it’s time for a fresh start, she sets up ‘Sweet Cleans’, a range
of natural beauty and cleaning products, and escapes to Penmorfa, a quiet
coastal village in west Wales.
Gethin Lewis thinks he’s about to
put his home village Penmorfa behind him for good. Now an
internationally-acclaimed artist living in New York, he just has to return one
last time to wind up his father’s estate.
But the village soon disrupts their
carefully laid plans. As truths are uncovered which threaten to split the
community apart, Gethin is forced to question his real reasons for abandoning
Penmorfa, and Coralie is made to face the fact that some stains just won’t go
away.
