21 July 2006

Dear Dennis,
Thanks for Tims email address thing and for looking out for the TR thingy.

Did I tell you about the little boy we meet on the walk to school in the mornings?

Some children have an imaginary friend – some may have an imaginary animal – this chap has an antelope! – well a whole herd of imaginary antelope actually! His poor mum was having terrible trouble getting him to school as the herd kept raiding gardens on the way and the little chap couldn’t handle them very well. Things have moved on a bit and thankfully his herd of imaginary antelope have gone to a zoo for a while – but he has now got an imaginary Red Panda. Trouble is they don’t move very fast (well not as fast as antelope in any case) so his mums journey to take him to school now takes three times longer as Red Pandas only have short legs and small feet!

I hope you and C have read the latest additions to my web log [www.d6equj5.blogspot.com]

One of our neighbours has an autistic 15 year old. One night a couple of weeks ago he got out of their house at 3 in the morning with their car keys, got into and started their car and was revving it up surrounded by shouting neighbours (I didn’t hear a thing and only caught up with the news the following day) luckily he couldn’t manage to jam the car into gear but did do some damage to the car in front as he let the handbrake off and rolled into it. Well, last week he got out of the house again – this time at four in the morning and he made a “camp” with sheets and garden sticks in the middle of the road. Last night / this morning he was out again although this time he had some tins of different colours of gloss paint from a neighbours front garden (apparently left out for the dustman). He painted the road purple, blue and terracotta. Thankfully and miraculously he missed all the parked cars but the road looks quite pretty now. It must be the heat or something because Saul got up last night, crept into our bedroom and removed the kittens from their basket one by one and took them down stairs and we didn’t realise until the morning. I think we’re going to “stair-gate” his room for a while.

We have 17 tomatoes on our plants and have had a dozen strawberries although it doesn’t look like there will be any more of those.

You all have a good weekend too … dude man.
D.