”“Yes, now is no time to argue,” Claire took charge and got to work as the woman screamed loudly. It was apparent that the baby was coming Right...Now.Claire wanted clean cloths, towels, clean water, and a suitable place for the mother-to-be, and more. James and Anne hopped to it, bringing the requested items as quickly as humanly possible. The hurried activity was punctuated by the almost non-stop shrieks of the woman in full labor.Claire was in total midwife mode.“Breathe quickly and puff your. She grabbed the rope and lead me to a wall and told me to put my hands over my head and stand on my tippy toes. Hands go underneath my breast and lift me up. My wrist slide onto something, feels like a hook. I am lowered again, I can just barely reach the ground.There is a soft hand on my butt caressing it. Than all of a sudden there are three consecutive slaps on my butt and I yell in pain. I than feel something cold down my back, scissors again? No, it cannot be. They feel like cold nails. Thomas was happy that his father would met his family, and give him time to restore order to his estate.Thomas prepared the house the best he could for his families arrival. Thomas only had Anne stay at the house with him, before sending his wife and child to see his father at the hospital. Thomas knew that the chimneys could be an easy fix, and that it would only take a day or two and the whole house would be heated.Anne and Thomas made quick work once she arrived. Thomas was busy with the. Ernest was more of a doer than Gerald, as the days passed the place looked tidier, the muddy yard was now back to the cobbles it had once been, the hedge cut meant they could see into the roadway, and the back lawn was now a lawn again not an uncut meadow. Sadly, it had not rubbed off on Mary, cats still roamed the worktops, and the dog ‘Anus’ was not ever far away. Eggs were still collected as was the goats milk but to yon butchers disgust it was a gateway exchange, though she had promised.