Then Mrs Blue would start spying. She’d keep Barry off school so he could walk the streets with her looking for Mr Blue and ‘fallen women’. When it got really bad she’d call the police and say that her husband’s fancy women were trying to burn the house down. Or there’d be a fight with someone she’d accused of making the two backed beast with her husband. And so she’d be sectioned again and given the old EST. Then she’d come out of hospital and they’d move home and everything would be okay until it started again.
When Mr Blue died of asbestosis, Barry and his mother were left with a massive wad of insurance and compensation money. So, Barry gave up his job at the Thermos flask factory to take care of his sick Ma.
She didn’t look that sick now though. She was dolled up to the nines, weari
