{"id":4392,"date":"2020-09-16T05:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2020-09-16T05:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:09:46","slug":"great-nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/great-nancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On the sixth day of the apocalypse I found Great Nancy at the allotment tending to our runner beans<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She was as normal wearing her scruffy dungarees and a pale blue tee shirt<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her bright yellow wellington boots were near the outdoor tap having been hosed down<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To clarify things we were not facing an apocalypse far from it as the day was friendly and warm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this part of the country the passing of time is called the apocalypse<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nobody knows where the word came from and why it differed from other regions<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was asked to fetch the wheelbarrow so that we might collect our produce before going to market<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is how we made our living that and walking the dogs of the rich and famous<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was due to walk the hounds of a recently deceased rock star later in the day<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0And Great Nancy had been booked to feed the fish of a famous film producer<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We were both engaged in writing books about allotments and larger market gardens<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mine was almost complete and was being edited by the head gardener in the Piscot Hills<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Great Nancy had chosen a more difficult subject and her progress was slow but when completed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I knew that her book would outshine mine as her style was more accommodating and less oblique<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our allotment was next to a railway and in years past had been used by the station staff who lived nearby<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But now it was open to all members of the community as long as they retained their orange badge<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had been with Great Nancy for nearly a hour when the first train for an hour sped by<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A number of the passengers aboard were admiring her beautiful maroon ball gown which shone in the soft afternoon light<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She had changed into this ball gown as she was about to water the lettuces which we grew as leaf vegetables<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the sixth day of the apocalypse I found Great Nancy at the allotment tending to our runner beans She was as normal wearing her scruffy dungarees and a pale blue tee shirt Her bright yellow wellington boots were near the outdoor tap having been hosed down To clarify things we were not facing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392"}],"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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}