
Breaking News:Too late…. Seven men, a van and a crane (a sort of cherry picker) arrived today and parked on the grass at the top of a windy hill, outside the fence where the dummy lives; they had arrived to mend the cable (no need now) it had been mended satisfactorily by a heroic Batman in ten minutes three weeks ago…… after….. three days of ferocious calls from the dummy; calls about the clump of live wires which had come down, finally and suddenly, in a storm…….and were lying in wait for days on the grass, cross eyed and ready to electrocute anything or anybody walking by. It had been a situation for some time which we had reported regularly to the board from this side of the fence, many times before, thinking the wires might be some sort of hazard especially if the wind blew. Today, the men took tea on the grass as there was nothing to do, before leaving again, men bemused about being sent to a job, that had been fixed ….. a job that had been sitting on their waiting list of things to do for the last two years; or maybe they came in response to our emergency calls three weeks ago,who knows? To any one reading this ‘news’ in all its full colour black and white glory (anyone who has come this far! thanks!): You may not be able to understand what this dummy is talking about, but don’t worry no- one else did, either!
Tag: dark side of light
yellow and white light divided: 03.30 am
sculpture: supernova
HOT NEWS. Batman puts kitty back! And averts disaster.

The electric wires called ‘cat’ were ‘live and dangerous’ after all. If touched it would have killed, the man said.But it had taken three days to convince emergency that they must come and fix it; that we must not be ignored. The falling clump of wires….’the cat’….. was now reachable and interesting enough for any child at the height of a six year old. But it took three intense days to convince the call centre that the wires that had now come down in driving rain on new years night, and had a yellow notice (still strung onto it) which said dangerous, live wires! We nearly began to believe things were OK, that we might be over egging the situation; that the wires must be safe after all. We were even told in cool tones that people without electricity took preference at this time. But things weren’t OK. Someone could have been electrocuted. Batman said so. We thank Batman and assistant who came and fixed it and who couldn’t believe how long our dangerous wait had been!
You can see what the ‘cat’ looked like before it came down, if you press the small thumbnail in ‘dark side of light’ (page 1 )and you can also see what the yellow notice said ( close up) in the ‘ the cat has gone'(page 2). Both found at the top in the introduction bar at: dark side of light
The cat has gone….. well not quite!
Hey! You up there…. Happy New Year!

View from the fig tree.
(where tiny green fig buds are hanging on in the frost waiting their chance)


