It was Wednesday. The day I always arrange to meet Badger at the allotment. Sometimes I help the old guy with a little bit of digging.
"This is the time to do the Autumn dig" he says, "so that the frost can get into it and kill all those pests."
But today, after a good fall of snow, there would be no digging.
"But you are still welcome to call, Alex" he told me on the mobile phone. "I'' have a good steaming cuppa for you and all the comforts."
How could I resist! Badger's allotment shed was not just a shed in that respect. He had it fitted out with comfy chairs, a put-u-up bed and even curtains, and of course a heater too. Which was just as well because by the time I arrived my hands were nearly falling off they were so frozen.
It was a long walk from the car park to where his shed was situated. Like in the middle of nowhere.
But it was all snug and being with Badger was always a delight.
You see, he served me well and I responded, just happy to give the sixty year old some belated spice in his life after his wife had departed two years before.
He confided when we first got chatting at the allotment, that he had always been bisexual but had never had the opportunity to be with another guy.
But all that was soon rectified when, one Wednesday morning, when it started to rain , after he'd fixed me a piping cup of coffee -and it all developed from there.
So we have always stuck to meeting up most every Wednesday since, and I have never looked back.
Father figure or what; Badger certainly does it for me and he is the most lovely guy. When he takes me it is always more than a mere fuck but something much more intimate and close.
On this particular Wednesday Obama had just regained the presidency in the States and Badger said it was time for celebration.
"Today" he said quite categorically, "I want to fuck the ass off, of you."
I'd only just got into the door, he saw I was frozen and soon fixed a hot coffee for me, I was absolutely shivering and shaking and even when he asked me to remove my jeans I was still shivering, even though he had his heat on full.
"I have something that will soon warm you" he said with that certain look in his eye. Then sniffing up to me.