With today being a bank holiday things have been pretty quiet so I thought I would make some bread when I got up this morning. While the bread was rising I decided to clean off a chicken carcass so that I can make soup tomorrow when I get a few more vegetables.
I got on much better than I thought so before lunchtime I sat down in the front room to do some writing. After a short while I was distracted by something odd that I perceived out of the corner of my eye so stood up to stretch and look out of the window to see what it was that had got my attention.
I live not too far from a scrapyard and it's not unusual to see strange men pushing a bike or supermarket trolley past the window loaded with various assortments of scrap metals. On these occasions it's usually the noise that gets my attention but this time there was no noise.
What I saw was a rather scruffy woman in her mid twenties with a large haversack on her back and she was pushing an old baby buggy which was piled with what I can only assume were her personal possesions, the whole lot was about seven feet high and covered with polythene.
She disappeared up the road and I returned to my writing only to be disturbed an hour or so later by a large tree passing by the window. A TREE? I jumped up and looked out to see the tree being carried by two youths. Now I have no idea whether they came by this legitimately or whether they uprooted it from someone's garden (in this area that would not be surprising).
They too, disappeared up the road so I resumed my writing wondering what would be the next strange thing to pass the window..
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