Classifieds · Box C008
Bramwell & Pyke, roofing, thatching and guttering, working at height since the year we would rather not print. Haddenham has more thatch per square mile than any of us bargained for, and we will tell you honestly whether yours needs redressing, which is a service most people find unsettling. We keep a bundle of water reed in the van at all times, including to the shop, as a matter of professional identity. Scaffolding erected, dismantled, and admired briefly from the pavement.
Two more from this week
- For sale: forty eight metres of bunting, red and white, triangular, purchased for an occasion that was subsequently reorganised into a smaller occasion. It has been up once, in a drizzle, for ninety minutes. Comes with a laminated plan showing the intended route around the green and a note in a different handwriting reading "no". Will consider offers, will not consider being told the plan was overambitious.Box C009
- Lost: one umbrella, large, golf-sized, green, distinguished by a bent spoke that makes a sound like a disappointed uncle when it opens. Last seen leaning against something in the general vicinity of the village green during the only dry week of the year, which tells you everything about my judgement. If found, please do not open it indoors, not for superstition, but because it takes two people and a written agreement to close it again.Box C010