Her Horse Fair Hung
curious large print in a gold frame in Nanna's bungalow front room. Massive muscled horse flesh barely controlled by small men. "Dad kept horses to pull his milk cart. Not milk bottles then, son. Silver churns collected from farms he and me trotted down terrace streets. Lasses would carry the milk home in porcelain jugs and such. He adored your mam. Fetched a little pony and cart for her. We went to horse fairs regular. Milk business were inherited by Uncle Jim when we moved Into town from farm. He modernised horses into a van. Business didn't last long." Paul Brookes Paul Brookes has performed in poetry performance group "Rats for Love" and is included in their "Rats for Love: The Book" Bristol Broadsides, 1989. His first chapbook "The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley" by Dearne Community Arts, 1993. He has read his work on BBC Radio Bristol and had a creative writing workshop for sixth formers broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live.
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