The Pebblewick Chronicles - Chapter 13- The funeral
Wednesday: Preparing the Grave On Wednesday morning, Clifford Post dug Lawrence Milton-Price's grave . Anyone who knew the Post family would have recognised the resemblance immediately. Clifford, older brother to Patrick, possessed much the same sturdy build and weathered features. Both men were short, broad-shouldered and permanently marked by lives spent outdoors beneath every variety of British sky. Both were cheerful. Both were hardworking. And both, perhaps most memorably, whistled. Patrick whistled while delivering letters. Clifford whistled while digging graves. Pebblewick, having lived alongside them for decades, had learned not to judge either profession by its soundtrack. Officially, Clifford had retired several years earlier. In practice, retirement in Pebblewick often functioned less as a permanent condition and more as a polite suggestion. St Bartholomew's churchyard was old. Very old. The ground held generations of village history beneath i...