News, news, news

Three items of news from the island. The first happened a week or two ago, which is that there was an incident at Donny’s place. Apparently some guy came on to another guy’s girlfriend, so the boyfriend told the other guy to back off. Guy #2 went outside, broke a bottle, came back in with a piece, and stabbed boyfriend in the neck. Boyfriend sustained severe injuries, but is in a stable condition. Guy #2 is awaiting trial, and might well get a life-sentence as it was a pre-meditated act of violence. The second item is that one of Solomon’s trucks overturned yesterday, carrying a load of goods from the docks to their stores. It was top heavy, you see – overloaded – so going up Main Street in town it simply toppled over. A big load of milk was squashed. We wait to see whether the milk is still saleable, but if not, there will be a milk shortage quite soon, what with the ship heading up to the UK on Saturday. This would normally be the time when things run out anyway, but now there will definitely be a problem. I bought 18l of milk from Thorpes today, and will probably go back next week again for another load, to keep us in stock until the ship comes back from the Cape at the end of April. The third news item is that I can slice the bread at the Star in Jamestown again. I noticed last week that they had a slicer in the bread section, so when I bought bread today I didn’t make the trek to Half Tree Hollow. It’s great!! What a luxury. Best thing since…um…the wheel?

We were back at school today, and it was pretty good. Caleb was in an impossible mood, just being silly and sounding like an hyperactive parrot, muttering and mumbling away when he wasn’t supposed to be talking at all. But everything was fine otherwise. Before school, Caleb did a drawing of a new world he invented, complete with pictures of what the people look like (it’s a hot country so they have very thick hair (?) ), and they had their own alphabet and everything. I let him talk about it all during an ad-hoc ‘show and tell’ session.