{"id":1751,"date":"2015-08-02T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:22:03","slug":"the-summer-of-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/02\/the-summer-of-56\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hierro the most westerly of the Canary Islands and has an area of about 109 square miles and a population of 8182<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 1956 this did not increase to 8186 as we did not visit Hierro choosing to holiday in Hove instead<\/p>\n<p>I have never visited Hierro<\/p>\n<p>We passed the Guayarmina Thermal Hotel (<i>80 Rooms<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><i>Superb location situation situated some 1400 feet above sea level and only 50 kilometres from Las Palmas<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We were staying at the Hotel Madrid which was situated in the main part of the town<\/p>\n<p>As I unpacked you ignored my employment and sat on the balcony<\/p>\n<p>On the adjoining balcony another couple also enjoyed the sun<\/p>\n<p><i>I was doing time in forty-nine <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why was that what was your crime?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Fraud<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Abroad? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes in mainland Spain <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was easily caught <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Oh what a pain <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why are hiding here in this hotel?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I am planning a robbery which I hope goes well <\/i><\/p>\n<p>On the other balcony two survivors of Hiroshima sat quietly watching watching the sail birds circle<\/p>\n<p>The man was aged about forty-five but looked much older<\/p>\n<p>He handed me a monochrome photograph<\/p>\n<p>It had been taken about ten kilometres from Hiroshima on the day the bomb was dropped and it caused me to detain my thoughts<\/p>\n<p>The image was so ordinary with three men casually looking up at the bomb cloud as if it was a nearby storm<\/p>\n<p>They seemed to be in the yard of a small factory<\/p>\n<p>There was a tree to the left which betrayed the hint of a breeze<\/p>\n<p>The telegraph pole was static<\/p>\n<p><i>The three men you see in the photograph are now dead the radioactive cloud claimed them in the following years <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was on the outskirts of the city when the bomb was dropped <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Are you ill?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes like them I am ill this is my last holiday <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Is that your wife?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes we often travel to these islands <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>They are quite beautiful <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And the other man?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He is a musical thief <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I would like to meet him <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Perhaps he can steal the life I have remaining to me and sell it back at a profit <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We can share the proceeds one to one <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Most of what is of interest in the northern half of the island may be seen in the course of a full day trip<\/p>\n<p>The road from<b> Arrecife<\/b> passes through the village of <b>Tahiche<\/b> which is not far from <b>San Miguel de Teguise<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was once the principal village of the island but is now of little account<\/p>\n<p>The main church which was called <b>Iglesia de San Miguel<\/b> had been previously damaged by fire but had been rebuilt in the early part of the last century<\/p>\n<p>The figure of the Virgin over the High Altar was once stolen by an impious Moor whose flight was intercepted by a large dog and the image was recovered<\/p>\n<p>A small painting at the foot of the Virgin shows the dog at the throat of the Moor and the scar over the Virgins left eye is said to have been received during the struggle<\/p>\n<p>The Moor was thrown from highest cliff and was smashed on the rocks beneath whilst the good dog was also murdered so that the church could hasten its sainthood<\/p>\n<p><i>Why do you think they built two hotels on this beautiful beach?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Many strange things happened in the 1970s <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>One has a great vantage of the dunes <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Fuerteventura is more sparsely populated than any of the other Canary Islands and is less productive<\/p>\n<p>It is only separated from the Sahara Desert by sixty miles of sea<\/p>\n<p><i>Shall we walk naked in dunes?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Are you not happy sitting here in the balcony?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The island although suffering from a shortage of water produces substantial crops of sisal tomatoes potatoes and wheat<\/p>\n<p>Its hottest months are from July to September<\/p>\n<p><i>I feel I want to walk naked into the sea <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I want to visit the tiny drinks hut hidden in the dunes and share a glass of orange juice with you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I want to hold your penis as we walk and feel it grow in my hand <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you think the survivors of the atomic bombing are still alive? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It is hard to tell <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What about the musical thief? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was so many years ago I would imagine that all the people in our hotel are now dead <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I wish they were immortals like us<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I could drink this view for eternity <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>An elderly couple appeared on the balcony next to them <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Good morning <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Good Morning <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Are you English?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No just immortal <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Would you mind if Jean fellates me as I do not want to disturb you or your lovely wife<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>She is my sister but please go ahead <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I must say she has the most beautiful cunt so wet and moist <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I like it as it serves my needs <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lanzarote is the most easterly of the Canary Islands and is separated from Fuerteventura by the Bocayna Strait<\/p>\n<p>The dunes were more tiring that I imagined as the shifting sand made walking difficult<\/p>\n<p>My sister and I sat on one of the higher dunes quite naked an watched the traffic pass along the road that interrupted our view<\/p>\n<p>A survivor of Hiroshima was sitting aboard a German coach wondering whether the polite Englishman and his lovely sister were still alive<\/p>\n<p><i>I could stay here for the rest of my days<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You would soon get bored <\/i><\/p>\n<p>A small group of Scandinavians passed us<\/p>\n<p><i>Why is there a fashion for shaved genitals?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A passing whim I imagine I do not know <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Possibly it is cleaner how would you like me?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like me to shave my cunt?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>It is of no matter to me whether your cunt is hairy or shaven<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We ran and half stumbled down the dune and after a little searching found the refreshment hut that my sister had previously mentioned<\/p>\n<p>There was a surprising number of people near to the hut given that the vacancy of the dunes<\/p>\n<p>Camels are largely used for transport<\/p>\n<p>Rabbits whilst providing a certain amount of food are a considerable nuisance<\/p>\n<p>We found a small table quite near to the sea<\/p>\n<p>Two nuns passed fully dressed in their habits<\/p>\n<p><i>I wonder if they are naked underneath <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Ask them<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My sister rose and walked towards the two nuns<\/p>\n<p>At first she seemed to be having difficulty in communicating with them but soon she was in conversation with both women<\/p>\n<p>There was much laughter<\/p>\n<p><i>Initially they did not want to talk to me as I was an immortal but I soon achieved their trust with my stories of the Holy Land and yes they were naked under their habits as they had just pissed together <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I thought so <\/i><\/p>\n<p>That evening the survivor of Hiroshima flew over the island of Lanzarote<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why the cancer that had eaten away at all his friends was dormant in him<\/p>\n<p>As the aircraft changed its course he saw the two hotels on the dunes and wondered what had possessed anybody to build in such a beautiful place<\/p>\n<p><i>Do you want to share my bath?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i> I have a surprise for you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Just a minute I am watching a jet liner change its course<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i> I feel that it is going to the moon <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It is your favourite soap <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Lavender?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes lavender <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I ran and jumped into the bath causing a great deal of water to splash onto the mock marble floor<\/p>\n<p><i>You liar it\u2019s lemon<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>I thought it would be lemon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>That was all they would sell me in the shop<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>They will not sell lavender to immortals even on this island <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It will have to do<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Lemon&#8217;s are an attractive fruit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Puerto de Arrecife is the capital of Lanzarote and in 1955 had a population of 9121<\/p>\n<p><i>Shall we see the albino crabs in the vast vast cave? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As long as you do not swim with them <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That\u2019s a deal <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I sat reading a Bible as my sister spoke to the tiny crabs<\/p>\n<p><i>There have only been two atomic attacks in wartime conditions and both these happened in Japan during the summer of 1945\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The musical thief said that another nuclear attack would finish off the world as we know it <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do not believe him my brother and I have fucked hard against nuclear weapons all our lives and there is nothing to worry about <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He said that the eruption that created this cave were caused by a nuclear attack in the 1730s<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That\u2019s not true <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What is your name?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I am my brother\u2019s sister <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He said that the blacks in Africa fired a missile at this island as they were\u00a0 jealous of our paradise <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No it was a volcanic eruption the musical thief was just causing a mischief <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What is your name?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Marmalade<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And yours?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Gertrude<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I can see right up your dress from here why are you not wearing any underwear?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I prefer not to<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You might get bitten there a number of savage flies on this island <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That is a chance I must take anyway you should not be looking<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Does your brother wear underwear?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It depends on his mood I am not sure whether he is wearing underwear today <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We do not wear underwear <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I should hope not as you are crabs <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Some crabs partake but only after the cave is closed to visitors <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Apartado 334 Santa Cruz Tenerife <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Grand Hotel Parque<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Hotel Mencey<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Hotel Santa Catalina <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hierro the most westerly of the Canary Islands has an area of about 109 square miles and a population of 8182<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 1956 this did not increase to 8186 as we did not visit Hierro choosing to holiday in Hove instead<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you enjoy your holiday in Hove? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No it rained all the time<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What did you do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Played chess masturbated read books but not necessarily in that order <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Did you visit the Royal Pavilion in Brighton? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Did you like it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No I found it boring<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I disliked its architecture <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Did it serve a good cup of tea? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No it was awful <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You should have rung me as I have a great list of hotels on these islands that I would have emailed to you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>emails did not exist in 1956<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Fuck <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What did you read on your holiday that year?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mostly Scott\u2019s Historical Romances<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Did you like them?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No they were fucking boring<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Where did you go?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Nowhere<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because my parents were too tight to pay for a holiday but we were allowed to sit in the garden when the sun was high and pretend we were in Lee on Solent<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Where was I? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Being immortal somewhere how I hated you for the freedom you were given<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But it was shit for you also stuck in a fucking grotty hotel in Hove <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The musical thief had joined the elderly couple on the adjoining balcony he was being fellated by the woman called Jean<\/p>\n<p><i>I have given up my life of crime<br \/>\nall the blood all the grime<br \/>\nI am going to be good boy now<br \/>\nas long as I am fellated by this silly cow <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The elderly woman glanced at my sister and I<\/p>\n<p><i>Would you like me to fellate you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No my sister has already done so<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you sure as your cock is still erect?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I smiled at my sister who has a scar over her left eye<\/p>\n<p>She was wearing loose virginal robes and was masturbating gently occasionally touching the tip of my erect cock<\/p>\n<p>I had two Bibles in front of me and was reading both at once<\/p>\n<p>My sister came quietly and took one of my Bibles from me and started reading it<\/p>\n<p>The survivor of Hiroshima was waiting for his one surviving friend at an airport in northern Japan<\/p>\n<p>But he learned that his friend had died the previous day from the cancer that had racked his body since the day of the explosion<\/p>\n<p>After saying a short prayer on the rest room floor he booked a flight to Ivanhoe in Australia<\/p>\n<p>Ivanhoe has a population of 200 souls<\/p>\n<p>No one who was resident in Hove in 1956 had ever visited Ivanhoe<\/p>\n<p>The musical thief had never visited Ivanhoe<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Mary made an appearance in Ivanhoe in 1961 but no-one took much notice so she left the small township and continued her journey along the Cobb Highway<\/p>\n<p>She had hitched for nearly one hundred miles when a trucker stopped for her but as she climbed into his cab she slipped and cut her left eyebrow quite badly on his wing mirror<\/p>\n<p>The generous trucker who was the son of Catholic immigrants took her to the nearest hospital (which was over three hundred miles away) where her face was stitched but due to the amount of time that had elapsed since the initial accident the wound left a scar which has remained on the face of the Virgin ever since<\/p>\n<p>She often shared the scar with others and my sister was a lucky recipient<\/p>\n<p>She was the only immortal to receive this honour<\/p>\n<p>Little did my sister know (<i>and I had never revealed this to her<\/i>) was that I too had a scar which was hidden by my hair<\/p>\n<p>This had been caused by an errant swing when\u00a0 that had been swung towards me by the Virgin<\/p>\n<p>It was a complete accident but nonetheless the Virgin awarded me with a scar which I was allowed to keep as long as I did not tell my sister<\/p>\n<p>She loved her scar so much that my truth would have diluted her admiration of her wound<\/p>\n<p>To this day I have not mentioned my scar<\/p>\n<p>As my hair is thinning somewhat my sister has on many occasions suggested that I shoud shorten it<\/p>\n<p>I have always resisted opting to keep my hair long<\/p>\n<p>We leave for Madeira tomorrow to comfort some of the people affected the dreadful floods in and around Funchal<\/p>\n<p><i>I should think that the situation of Madeira is the most enviable on the whole earth. It ensures almost every European comfort together with almost every tropical luxury. The seasons are the youth, maturity and old age of a never ending still beginning spring.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hierro the most westerly of the Canary Islands and has an area of about 109 square miles and a population of 8182 During the summer of 1956 this did not increase to 8186 as we did not visit Hierro choosing to holiday in Hove instead I have never visited Hierro We passed the Guayarmina Thermal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}