Classifieds · Box C022
Wanted: a man or woman who owns a long ladder and no strong opinions about how other people should be using theirs. I have a ladder of my own but it reaches the gutter in the way a handshake reaches an apology, which is to say technically. Previous helpers have spent more time assessing my angles than ascending them. Tea provided, commentary not required.
Two more from this week
- Free to a good home: a full set of encyclopaedias, A to Zygote, 1987, including the volume where everything about computers is wrong in a way that is now quite soothing. They weigh what a child weighs and look magnificent on a shelf you have not yet built. I kept them through three house moves on the grounds that one day somebody would ask me a question, and nobody ever has.Box C023
- Lost near the pond: one wooden walking stick, ash, with a brass band around the handle and a dent where it met a cattle grid at speed. It was not being used for walking at the time, it was being used to point at a duck, which is how these things happen. If found, it is the only stick in Haddenham that smells faintly of varnish and regret.Box C024