ABSTRACT
It is late afternoon in Cedar High farmyard, located on the edge of the village of Wanet in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Doris and Nigel are loading up Doris’s Vauxhall estate with dairy goods in preparation for the morning milk-round. Sid has just driven up the farm lane in his beaten-up Bedford van and is now leaning on the gate outside the cold-store room, smoking, while he watches Nigel doing the hefting. In anxious voice, Doris says, ‘I just been on the phone to that Mr Park Warden you know Sid, and I’m still no better off now. I wanted to know if the building can start yet, right, but I couldn’t get a straight answer. I don’t know… Fred’ll have to phone again later and speak to his senior.’
