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Opening the hatch, he shoos them out gently. He is closer to the birds than to anyone. It is the only other place he feels ‘himself’. Unable to talk to his wife, he slouches out to his pigeon loft in the garden. His whole sense of meaning – his value as a ‘man’ – comes from being a collier. He is entitled to compensation and, as he is reminded, the union should help out, too. After ‘nigh on 30 years’ hewing coal in the Fawr pit, his lungs are full of dust and, since he can no longer work, the mine is forced to make him redundant. In Ron Berry’s 1982 story ‘Time Spent’, Lewis Rimmer, a 57-year-old Welsh miner, decides to die among his pigeons.
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