I slept far too well and long last night and have still woken up needing another five minutes. Must be the heat? Then again, it’s not been any different to other years, heat-wise. I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday who was saying she expected the high temperatures to have started weeks ago. It’s usually hotter in early June, she said, and it was last year. It’s still only 37 in our courtyard in the afternoon, and we’ve known it be 40° or more. Even so, the hot weather is no excuse for this…
I don’t mean the chap on the left who’s either gawping, fantasising or considering throwing up, I refer, of course, to the unnecessary amount of flesh on the right. All the way up the Kali Strata with her BF cow-towing along behind with the bag of discarded clothing. I once did that for Neil – follow along behind picking up his discarded clothes, but then, it was Brighton Pride, and he was doing a turn on a float. This is a different matter. This is a village. At the risk of sounding like a sitcom character with a catchphrase, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, would you walk through the charming village of Little Bottom Under Wallop with your big bottom walloping about for all to see? This is how a lady walks through the village:
And now, I must away to deal with watery things. We now have a young soldier living below (as I might have said), so our already restricted water supply is being stretched to the limit. (We ran out completely on Sunday, midday.) No-one’s fault, but we have to be careful, so I am having my shower, watering the garden, doing the washing and other similar things in the morning while the mains is on, so we still end up with a full tank at 12.00 when it stops. (We can fill the tank on three mornings of the week, only.) The tank just about lasts two days if I don’t have another shower and leave that for those who need it, like the barmen and soldiers. The landlord is arranging for a second tank to go in so we’ll be okay, and for a solar water heater to be wired up, so the chap below can have control of his own hot water, because otherwise, he only gets hot water when we turn on our hot tank… Confused? You will be after the next instalment of Soap. Which is what I must go and use now, while I can, and after that, sweeping the courtyard, watering the plants, putting the washing on, and having a shower. At last!
