Dickens Challenge

Hard Times - DHT4

“Stephen Blackpool falls into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends”

I'm sure referees, especially rugby ones, are not ostracised as was Blackpool in Hard Times, but they are individual amongst thousands of faces and a cheering society.

It's been a fairly dismal day brightened only by a visit from Emma on her way home from Manchester to London.