Classifieds · Box C010
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.
Two more from this week
- Upright piano, walnut, fully in tune with itself if nothing else. Free to anyone who can get it out of the front room, which we managed to get it into in 1998 by means nobody present can now reconstruct. Two of the legs unscrew, the third is load-bearing in a way our surveyor described as "philosophically interesting". Bring rope, bring optimism, bring a friend who owes you something substantial.Box C006
- Wanted: the second volume of a three volume history of the Buckinghamshire, borrowed from me at a barbecue in the general area of Haddenham and never seen since. I do not want volumes one or three. I have volumes one and three. I have read volumes one and three eleven times each and I can tell you now that the good bit is in volume two, or at least the bit that would settle a long-running disagreement about a culvert. No questions asked, though I will have several.Box C007