Fire And Water

[poliphilo]

We rearranged the study yesterday. Jenny and Ian, Ailz and I. My mother came in at one stage and said she wished we'd waited until she was dead, but then she sat down with an account book of my grandfather's and forgot she was unhappy. I spent most of the afternoon outside- feeding files and their contents into a brazier.

It started raining mid afternoon. I carried on burning things until it was dark. They say that parts of Britain- and this must be one of them- have had the wettest January since records began.