St Jude Day’s storm thrashed through part
of Europe last week, felling trees, people, and cranes shattering roofs and
lives.
At the same time that the wind was whipping
up the seas, global warming was melting ice caps and raising sea levels.
Bitsnbobs – your humble blog – battened down
the hatches.
Some of them.
Unfortunately…..
Ok folk, I have some bad news…..
As you may know Bitsnbobs is not just what
you see here on the Front Page – it is also a team of backroom talent
struggling daily to bring you artistic design as well as content.
Only this past month they came up with the
Black and White alternating photos that adorned the Epilogue of the literary
offering that has taken up most of the blog this year albeit on four of the other pages that you may, or may not, have found.
It is also The Archives – a labyrinth of
caves, underground passages and endless hidden chambers wherein piles of
manuscripts are carefully collected and catalogued by the tireless Ms Penny and
her team of volunteers.
All of this was secreted under an old fisherman’s hut, somewhere far, far away.
Far.
But.....
Unfortunately old fishermen’s huts are
often very close to the tide line and the aforementioned caves, passages and
chambers are lost beneath the salty brine.
The old hut is just a pile of splintered
driftwood.
And Mrs Penny is missing.
Assumed lost.
A remembrance service was held at midnight
on Oct 31st – pumpkins were thrown into the waves and we sang songs.
She would have liked that.
So the Archives are gone.
All that remains are a few pages washing up
in unlikely places.
The Flotsam and Jetsam of the past past.
This month we are publishing those remains.
4 comments:
Oh, no! These are actual documents? My museum curator heart (a former life) skips a beat.
Well they are "sort of" documents though sometimes they are real sort of.
There is of course a post as head archivist now (unfortunately) open.
Oh no! Dust in the wind, or rather, kelp on the waves.
Kelp and dust handler.
Do you want the job!!?
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