I could stand and watch it for hours. Name the author!
I am working away on my new book and across the road there are three people painting the fence of a house and digging up the front garden and moving some large paving stones around.
The people involved are
- a 30 ish woman, the owner of the house
- a slightly older woman, sister or friend?
- a young boy, 14 years old ish and possibly the son of the second woman
When they started their work, they all began by painting the fence and they made good progress.
The owner of the house then moved away and started to dig the garden, leaving the other two to continue painting the fence.
As the work got too heavy for the house owner, the second woman moved from painting to digging and moving the heavy paving stones.
That left the boy alone. He painted with some gusto as he leaned on the hand rail that goes from pavement level to garden level. Having lived with three teenage boys I predicted to myself that this boy will be in serious difficulty when he can no longer lean on that hand rail. And so it proved to be!
As the women are digging and sweating their way across the garden with spade and paving stones, the boy has been drinking orange, consulting with the women but now is sitting on the steps leading up to the garden and throwing a hammer across the garden in an attempt to get it to stick in the soil as if it were a knife! Painting activity there is none!
The boy is uncontrolled and apparently shameless!
DW
1 comment:
The following day the boy didn't appear although his mother did. Before the mother arrived though, the lady of the house set to and painted the fence herself. Took her about an hour or so to finish all eight sections. Horror of horrors, though, young men, she had nothing to lean on at all as she did it!!
DW
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