4 EXPANDING HORIZONSThe only two things that were missing from Wayne’s life, if it were compared with those of most boys of his own age, were a girlfriend and motorised transport, but he didn’t miss or yearn for either.
If the weather looked bad, he usually went to work with his father in the Range Rover. Likewise if he had a lot of meat to take to the market to sell for his parents, but otherwise he was quite happy to roam the mountain on Harry. He also had two large, light-weight horse panniers lined with insulation, which could hold thirty dozen eggs in polystyrene boxes and four chickens each, plus half a bucket of ice, which was enough to keep the produce cool until one o’clock, although he had usually sold out by noon.
The ride to the village was a five-mile walk, so as not to brea
