Sunday, 30 September 2007

Jackie and I spent the day clearing away the collapsed fence at the bottom of our garden. Once we had removed our six foot tall fence, we found that there were two shorter fences behind it, and that the gaps between the fences were completely filled with weeds, garden waste, and some building rubble. The current occupants of the house came out and denied all knowledge of this environmental catastrophe, saying they had only lived there for a year.

We got on fine with our neighbours-we’d-never-met-before and they helped clear away some of the rubbish. They seemed very pleasant and it was a peculiarly English collaboration: working politely together to erect a fence so that we’d never have to see each other again.

Around 5:00 pm we were visited by Rhiannon and family for a wonderful roast dinner together (how did Jackie manage that?)