There is no Christmas this year Bobby.”
Vicky, his elder
sister laments. She explains that she had over-heard Lucy`s mother telling
auntie Chipo that she had over-heard her husband talking to Ziyepi the kraal
head that the bread delivery van was
stuck in the mud across Nyamachesi River.
Even if they pulled it out, the river
is in flood. It is Christmas Eve.
