Water Ghosts

Contents

Part 1: IT’S ONLY SCARY IF YOU LOOK BACK

Chapter 1 - Collateral Damage

Chapter 2 - To the Manor Drawn

Chapter 3 - The Ties that Bind

Chapter 4 - Chocks Away

Chapter 5 - Holiday Hell

Part 2: LIVING LIKE NATIVES

Chapter 6 - Nature Reigns

Chapter 7 - First Impressions

Chapter 8 - Sleuthing the Source

Chapter 9 - Ghosts are Where They Find You

Part 3: ‘MULTUM IN PARVO’

Chapter 10 - So much in So little

Chapter 11 - Like a Good Chardonnay

Chapter 12 - Pleasurable Pursuits

Part 4: CALL OF THE WILD

Chapter 13 - Weather or Not

Chapter 14 - A Well-Kept Secret

Chapter 15 - A Siren Call

Part 5: THE SPORTING LIFE

Chapter 16 - Pitching Pennies

Chapter 17 - Football, Fun Fairs and Hares

Chapter 18 - A Girlie Fix

Chapter 19 - Charity Begins at Home

Part 6: HUNTER–GATHERER

Chapter 20 - Home Truths

Chapter 21 - The Necessities of Life

Chapter 22 - Food for Thought

Chapter 23 - Rural ‘Honeypots’

Part 7: FOOT ’N’ MOUTH

Chapter 24 - Politically Incorrect

Chapter 25 - Greet and Meat

Chapter 26 - A sanity Check-up

Part 8: OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS

Chapter 27 - Two Thousand Years of Blood and Guts

Chapter 28 - On the Hoof

Chapter 29 - The End of the Season

Chapter 30 - Rules Of The Road

Part 9: RUNNING FOR COVER

Chapter 31 - A Question of Loyalty

Chapter 32 - Ladies Who Lunch

Part 10: GETTING IN THE SPIRIT

Chapter 33 - Cooking your Goose

Chapter 34 - Calling all Neighbours

Chapter 35 - Freezing for the Lord

Author’s note

Acknowledgments