Opening time at “Shay”

For the sake of my follower, I’d better get on with this business at the ‘Wet’; I finished up the last ramble, mumbling on about something which was  going to happen, that I wasn’t expecting.

About half hour before opening time, a face appeared at the door, and I called out that I wasn’t open for another half hour, and the face called back, that he was there to start work.

Somewhat bemused, I opened the door, and let the face in, the face was attached to a young bloke, who evidently knew his way around the ‘Wet’, not that that was particularly hard, he introduced himself (I can’t remember his name), and told me that he was one of several casuals, that worked at the ‘Wet’, during the busy periods.

Naturally I asked, “What busy periods?” ; I was taking into account  that Paddy had been doing around 4…