What are we doing?
October 26th, 2003
- Alas: mending the roof for the third time in succession, with Bert. The problem is not so much that previous repairs didn't help, but that they didn't help enough.
- Writing that marching report - it is long overdue.
- Celebrating my mother's birthday (last october 15th) and the fourtieth wedding anniversary of my parents (today), with a meal of mussels at their abode, my brother-in-law Peter van K. being the cook - congratulations, mum, dad, and many happy returns.
 Being happy, not just about my parents, or about my mother in particular, for her patient collecting of all articles relevant to my situation, appearing in newspapers I don't have myself, but mostly about what she'd collected this time. My thanks (and, shortly, a bottle of fine gin) go out to the man of whose current acts reliable rumours had reached me, which I now see being raised to certainty, thanks to mum and the regional newspaper: long live Toon Schneider, the man who's appointed himself picket watchman, to curb the fire hazard behind my home. If I am correct, he coincidentally is (or, maybe, isn't) the man who, in my report on yesterday, stands below the rainbow, dressed in white. Who was that called that neighbourhood anti-social? I do believe I've gotten angry about that before. Still, I'm glad that at least there's someone, who guarantees my safety.
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