Robert Fripp's Diary

Glasgow DGMs main office telephone

10.31 DGM's main office telephone line is not working. It arrives at the outside of World Central, but nothing hapens inside. BT engineers have called twice. Hopefully, the third engineer and/or visit will figure this out.

Now visiting the Little Horse, I travelled via the annexe of our about-to-be-becoming home in West Dorset. Currently, it closely resembles a building site. All the prior "modernising" work is regrettable.

Examples:

1. Lay carpets but don't deal with the damp;
2. Install central heating but don't provide access to fill the oil tank;
3. Site the oil tank in the only place in the small garden where it's possible to sit;
4. Fix heating pipes visibly on the walls rather than casing or hiding under floors;
5. Put a Scandinavian-style wood-burning stove in an English cottage fireplace;
6. Use louvred doors where panelled doors are appropriate;
7. Decorate everywhere in neutral dismal.

Our new home is only 18 miles from the churchyard where Mr. Bennett & Elizabeth rest.

And now for something different...

Yesterday morning, brewing the day's first pot of Earl Grey, a limerick took shape in the (admittedly wilting) psyche of your Diarist:

An end of school year in Devizes
It's headmaster who's fond of surprises
Said, "I'll give them a treat, An absolute feat!"
And out of his butt blew the prizes.

Web visitors from outside England may need to know, firstly, that Devizes is a Wiltshire town about 30 miles from World Central and, secondly, is a whizzer of a placename for someone interested in constructing limericks. Denizens of a limerick are well-served should they have some relationship with Devizes:

A progressive rock band in Devizes...
An earnest young man of Devizes...
A solicitor's clerk from Devizes...
A tourist who passed through Devizes...
An astronaut fell on Devizes...
A punter who bet on Devizes...
A philospher dreamed of Devizes...
A French town that's twinned with Devizes...

Perhaps:

Three cyclists of varying sizes
While perusing a map of Devizes
Were asked: .....

To any Guestbook visitor who completes this dodgy beginning, no prizes.