Wednesday 16/08/06

Our elderly couple depart for a handful of visits around town. Mrs B receives the new flooring that will be installed tomorrow. This requires quite a bit of preparation, such as moving the fridge, table and cooker. The griddle (hotplate) on the cooker is not working, and an engineer calls round to check it out. In the Eastern Pacific, Tropical Storm Hector has formed. Wukong is drifting slowly west, to the south of Japan. I do research on my 2996 project, more to the point, the victim I was allocated. He was the centre of a very undignified quarrel. A photo was published in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, showing a man falling from the North Tower at 9:41:15 a.m.. It was initially thought to have been Norberto Hernandez, but this was vehemently denied by his family. The remains of Norberto were later identified in a stairwell. I locate a memorial quilt to this chap, and I'll write more fully about him on 11 September. Nine pigeons were blown off course to St Kilda, and they are being relocated to Harris to give them a chance of survival. Some of them had come all the way from France. Dinner tonight is laid on for our guests. It includes roast lamb, vegetables and potato mash, with a pavlova after. Play CDs with Gaelic songs and I play the keyboard. For the first time this summer, mrs B lights a fire. Sunset 9.10 pm, but it gets dark earlier than that.