Charlie’s hanging about today because it was raining isn’t the case because he comes across workmen deliberately setting the moors around Belmont on fire. Perhaps with it being a Monday – Washing Day – he was getting under his Mother’s feet, and was perhaps offered enough money to cycle out somewhere and buy his tea at the Unicorn in Walton le Dale.
After darkness fell our hero decides to tackle the ‘Haunted Tunnel’ with, it has to be said, great composure.