Corn was growing there. Each year the blades pushed their way up to the stage of full corn in the ear, but it was never reaped, a mere travesty of wha... corn should be. So it fell and died, and next year fresh life reappeared, curiously persistent. The cargo of the Horstfels.Finally at the shingle bank I showed her the skeleton of the Horstfeld, its rusty heavy machinery, transverse frames and the keel resting in the shingle bed. I got her to stand on the keel so that she stood higher than I,. The hot brand looking for all the world like a stirrup slid over the tube and with a sizzle and a pop struck home, Rosie screamed and fainted, the men supporting her , the smoke rose, and in a trice she too was outside her breast in the cooling water, and our friends in an uproar of applause for matt and my dad. It was Maisy from the circle J that suggested that as a gesture of solidarity all the women should remove their blouses and so on, remaining topless for the rest of the night… this was. I stayed in the livingroom while my sister fled to her room. Our room.She eventually whipped together a simple meal which she decided to serve on tray tables in the livingroom while watching t.v. We rarely did that. It was great, eating and yelling at the dumb shows and stupid commercials. But then a movie coming on got previewed we all wanted to see, so we finished up, cleaned up, and put our tray tables up.It was an old movie where the characters didn't need to take off their clothes to. I worked out that as far as I could remember (not having kept a diary or a record of our sexual activities) my wife and I had not had intercourse for about three months, and it had got pretty irregular for months before that. I'd done my best to ignore all the signs (including the frequent sales trips and conferences my wife seemed to need to be going on) until one day my daughter, Samantha, cornered me for a serious talk."Dad ... Mum's messing around on you."I just looked at her grimly. She.