In the summer time

‘In the summer time, when the weather is fine’ is the first line of an old upbeat song, and was a prompt from a Dean Writers Circle ‘Creativity and Cake’ evening, stolen as usual for my FaceBook prompts.

In the summer time, when the weather was fine, Betty loved to kick off her shoes and run through the park’s long grass, her toes curling in the silky coolness. That connection with nature had first thrilled her at age three – she remembers her mother laughing, walking backwards with her arms ...