07-09-2024, 10:15 AM
Lying here this morning, book in hand, tea at the ready when there comes a banging on the door. So, up I get and answer the summons to be faced with the blurry view of half a dozen firemen and one of our Haumaru staffers who ask if I knew there had been a fire and a fatality in the village last night...
Funny thing, I had heard something but being blind as a bat without contacts could see nothing to worry about when I looked out so went back to bed. Even stranger, I had smelt wood smoke much earlier but no smoke alarms, and nothing I could see burning in here or nearby, so had put it down to someone starting a fireplace up.
So, one of our weirder neighbours, a very anti social, extremely right wing South African with some very unusual ways has left the village in a rather dramatic way. No doubt gossip will give me the details at some stage, meanwhile, I am rather glad I live at the opposite end from him. Sadly, I doubt he will be much missed.
Funny thing, I had heard something but being blind as a bat without contacts could see nothing to worry about when I looked out so went back to bed. Even stranger, I had smelt wood smoke much earlier but no smoke alarms, and nothing I could see burning in here or nearby, so had put it down to someone starting a fireplace up.
So, one of our weirder neighbours, a very anti social, extremely right wing South African with some very unusual ways has left the village in a rather dramatic way. No doubt gossip will give me the details at some stage, meanwhile, I am rather glad I live at the opposite end from him. Sadly, I doubt he will be much missed.