/tags/clockwork/Recent content in Clockwork on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/07/14/house-of-dolls/Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/07/14/house-of-dolls/<p>The sign ‘Welcome to England’ had greeted Bronwyn Harper as she had driven her hire car out of Heathrow Airport that morning, and even now she could only smile at remembering that sign. She hadn’t seen much of a welcome so far on this typical spring Sunday in England if she was being honest. In other words, it had rained incessantly all day, and even now, by five in the afternoon the light was beginning to disappear from the grey, leaden skies. And thanks to a delayed flight, and a lengthy passage through immigration she was still 80 miles or so from her destination, somewhere in Wiltshire if the signs were to be believed.</p>