THIS NORTHERN SOUL ;
TIME WILL PASS YOU BY

BY : LDMan ©

CHAPTER 1 HANG-GLIDING

(Title track ‘Time will pass you by’ (by Toby Legend))

Autumn/Winter 2009 A grey haired man stands on the edge of a mountain, overlooking his home on the North Wales coast. The fur collar of his Parka is lifted against the cold and wind. He listens to a tune (title track) on his MP3 player. Before him he sees a coastal resort that has changed dramatically since his childhood. The view of our chacter revolves through 180° and it stops to show his view of the landscape/coast but with a lesser quality, tinny sound, as if from within his ‘MP3’ perspective... ... and a shouted voice is just heard above the music and the strong winds. PHIL (with a worried look on his face) ADY, can you hear me? ADY, ADY (the music fades to backing levels as the track continues to it’s finish) ADY Yeh, yeh. I’m not bloody deaf ‘n’ all PHIL (puffing and panting) Lynne and the kids said you might be up here What you up to? ADY Ah! Nothin’ really Just thinking PHIL What with? (no response) OK then what about? ADY The past, (pause) the old days, (pause) our teens PHIL flippin' 'eck matey-boy, it’s being so cheerful that keeps us going ADY Yeh! Right We do though don’t we? PHIL (bursting into one of his many regional accents, in an attempt to lift the moment; scouse, as it happens and with a dozy grin on his face) Yeh, we do do dat doh don’t we (but no change in the general solemnity / feeling of the moment) (another pause) Taken your tablets this morning? ADY Yeh, can’t you hear me flamin’ rattling? (pause) Taken yours? PHIL Yep! bleedin' near killed me getting up here tho’ (slight pause) d’ya reckon your in my will or something ADY (pause) ‘ you ever made one? PHIL Yeh, ‘course I have ADY Jeez mate, leave us your scooter and if I ever make one I’ll leave you mine PHIL I wouldn’t ride that heap of sh!te if you paid me ADY Cheeky bugger That’s probably why I don’t bother (longish pause) PHIL ‘ thought you might be thinking of flying home there for a moment (pause) You weren’t, were you? ADY (turning face to face, solemnity changing to smiles) What, when I’ve got your Lammy to look forward to raggin’ about PHIL I’d set the bugger so as it blows up if you tried to go over 50mph ADY It’d bleedin' seize if you tried that anyway PHIL It’d p!ss all over yours, all day, any day ADY Yeh, right! I’ve spent a bloody fortune on that thing If it doesn’t go now then IT is definitely going over the chuffin’ cliff …and bo!!ocks to the insurance PHIL Wahey! I'd pay to see that any day ADY (pause) Fancy some dinner? LYNNE’s just phoned, there’s some pies warming in the oven PHIL ‘ suppose it’d be better than flying in this weather (smiles all ‘round as they hug and head for home) (pause) Hey d’ya remember that first scoot of mine ADY Yeh ! 'course I do ' that blue 'n' white GP150 PHIL Yeh, the one you smashed up in that posh sod's rockery ADY Cheers bud, thanks for reminding me of that PHIL I let you take it to bloody Norfolk tho’ didn’t I? ADY Too right, well, eventually anyway Did I ever tell you the full story about that one? That little scoot did bloody well you know PHIL That’s the difference between a proper Lammy and that lump of crap you ride ADY Yeh! but, keeping up with that Express coach like it did Them bugger’s drive like nutters you know PHIL Yeh I know ... but ... didn’t he tell you? ADY Tell me what? PHIL I dropped him a fiver to keep an eye on you BOTH ADY Honest? No ....... he didn’t let on. Not once PHIL Ah well, money well spent You got there … and back … somehow ADY It still took some doing you know? (pause) Perhaps if you’d have dropped him a tenner he’d have slowed down a bit PHIL (grabbing his ‘little’ brother by the neck and ‘knuckling’ his skull) You cheeky little sh!t Perhaps if I’d dropped him £15 he’d have got rid of you both … never to be seen again ADY That bloody nearly happened in any case The brothers laugh and joke as they trek off down the mountain, arms around each others shoulders as if to keep the cold at bay but generally to confirm the feelings they have for each other. The view spirals upwards as the two ‘lads’ continue chatting about ADY’s ‘mission of love’ in the early seventies and the scene fades out with flashbacks of old photo’s of them in the seventies when the two of them where in their prime and life simply knew no boundaries.

Chapter 2