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Mrs. Gulliver's Roses Bloom in December · Muggle Snuggle: A Boring Harry Potter Podcast to make you Sleep

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: It is half past five on Thursday evening. I'm standing
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: at Mrs. Gulliver's gate, with Gerald to my eye and
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: my notebook open in my free hand, and eleven heads
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: of December roses are holding still for inspection, not swaying, holding.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Frost coming down with the dusk, scent rising off eleven
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: open heads into air cold enough to smoke my breath,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: and below the gate... On the bare stone below Wednesday's coin,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: one petal, set across the stone the way spoons get set, red, unbruised,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: unmoved since dawn, taken change, left petal. The street has
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: settled its bill in flowers, and tonight the page reads
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: the receipt line by line, Gerald up, pencil up, eleven
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: heads weight. I have come to count what opening looks
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: like up close, because dawn counts heads and dusk counts petals,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: and no head of the eleven has been read the
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: way pages deserve. Or run first. Seven heads, left to right. Gate-bed, after.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Four heads. Latch-side, last. Gerald, on every head. Pencil, on
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: every finding. Forty feet down the lane, Keeper sat the
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: stack of number seven, facing these same flowers, green eyes forward, unmoved,
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  Speaker 1: the way rank regards everything new. I minuted the facing
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: with the dusk, because facings are data too, eleven heads,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: one petal, one watcher with Gerald, one watcher with green eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and a gate between them, holding December. The gate stood shut,
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: the roses stood open. The curtain above lifted half an
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: inch during my count, the way curtains check, and settled
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: again without a face. Mrs. Gulliver awake, Mrs. Gulliver watching, Mrs.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Gulliver saying nothing, completely and without surprise, the way she
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: says everything, dusk coming down the lane like a lid,
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: frost silvering the latch. Eleven heads of December holding still,
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  Speaker 1: and Gerald going up to the first of them. Dawn
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: gave eleven open heads where Monday gave hips going over,
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  Speaker 1: and noon gained eleven again, unchanged to the head. Wednesday
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: gave shut buds all day, and a curtain lifting half
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  Speaker 1: an inch. Three mornings. Two seasons. One gate. Monday. All
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: going over. Wednesday. All shut. Thursday. Wednesday. all blooming. The
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: supporters heard every count in full earlier this evening, with
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: the wall run and the gate bed and the fourteen buds,
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: because supporters get the margins. The regulars get the dust count. Now,
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: eleven open, fourteen shut, six gone over, thirty-one, promises, holding
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  Speaker 1: since dawn. Three questions stand on this gate, and all
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: three were promised. Whose hand laid the petal? how eleven
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: heads opened in a single night, what December wants of
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  Speaker 1: one gate. The supporters heard the full margins earlier, blue
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: log and daytime watch and five finished gardens, because supporters
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: get the margins. Everyone else gets the page. Tonight the
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: page does the walking, gate by gate, head by head,
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  Speaker 1: the way evening watches deserve. Stay in the warm with me.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: By the end of this hour, you will know how
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night resumed the music, and what the rota ruled after,
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: head by head down the wall run, and what seven
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  Speaker 1: heads showed Gerald, bed by bed through the gate-bed, and
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: where the petal is not from, what the streak says
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: about blooms and petals and rings. And whether the third
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  Speaker 1: coin held its chalk through dusk, the watch is first,
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: the heads are waiting, the petal keeps to its act,
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  Speaker 1: the ring keeps till dusk, The street keeps till features.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening, and welcome to Muggle Snuggle. My name is Hugh.
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  Speaker 1: I am twenty-eight years old. I live at number four,
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  Speaker 1: Bramble Lane, and as of Thursday I am a man
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  Speaker 1: who chalks rings round money in daylight, which my sister
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  Speaker 1: has already described as drawing round coins for no reason,
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  Speaker 1: though this time she added the ruling underneath it. and
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  Speaker 1: I am giving it to you exactly, because the notebook
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  Speaker 1: takes testimony from all sources. Including family. Especially family. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: Chalk round money, Hugh. End quote. Chalk round money. Four
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: words and no mark at the end. The way verdicts
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  Speaker 1: come from family. She is wrong about the reason and
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  Speaker 1: right about the chalk. The ring stands round the third
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: fifty pence piece. Full circle. Dated Thursday. And no reason
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  Speaker 1: I have found yet explains it better than hers. The
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  Speaker 1: reason will show itself before the dusk is out. Regulars,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: if you are back from last night, welcome back. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: the round resumed exactly as promised. Wednesday night, twelve on
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  Speaker 1: the dot, eight bars down the lane and four outside
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  Speaker 1: number nine, and the cut, timed with the first three
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  Speaker 1: nights to the minute, The supporters heard the listening post
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  Speaker 1: in full earlier this evening, with the empty curb and
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  Speaker 1: the fox and the two calls from the church end,
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  Speaker 1: because supporters get the margins. The page holds the ruling tonight.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: The rota runs three on and one off, ruled in pen.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: The new round stands opened, played, timed, witnessed, seven entries,
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  Speaker 1: one round, pen down, but the page tonight is not music.
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  Speaker 1: The notebook tore up the week at dawn, the way
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  Speaker 1: dawns tear weeks when seasons come early, and eleven frosted
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  Speaker 1: heads will not keep their count for any rota. So
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: the resuming keeps to one act, and the roses take
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: the hour, and to-night the page walks the whole rose-watch,
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  Speaker 1: head by head and gate by gate. The music waited
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  Speaker 1: a week for its evening. The bloom. will not wait
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: a night. The stakeout pages stand finished. Every night dated.
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  Speaker 1: Every silence ringed. Their evening waits adjourned. The way courts
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  Speaker 1: wait for an evening yet to be named. Nothing missing.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing unwritten. The hatch keeps its till. The queue keeps
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  Speaker 1: its counsel. The rear keeps its gap. But blooms keep
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  Speaker 1: their own evenings. The way vans keep their own hours.
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  Speaker 1: and eleven open heads will not wait on any rotter.
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  Speaker 1: So the stake-out waits, and the roses take the hour.
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  Speaker 1: To the regulars first, because regulars first is the rule
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  Speaker 1: of this house, and by this house I mean my
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: actual house, number four, which has never once chulted anything
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  Speaker 1: in daylight till this very week, so far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: and that qualifier is doing more work than any qualifier
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  Speaker 1: has ever done in this notebook. Dear thank you for
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: coming back, and before we go a step further... Three
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  Speaker 1: things that have happened since last night, because the street
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: has not been idle while I have been counting. One.
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  Speaker 1: My sister rang at tea time, hearing that I was
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: drawing round money, and said, the street has finished leaving
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  Speaker 1: me feathers, and started leaving me wages I cannot spend.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: And then she laughed, the way sisters laugh, and said
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: the chalk will wash out before the wages do. Then
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: the laughing stopped. the way laughing stops when sisters mean it,
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  Speaker 1: and she said chalk round money, which I have already
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: entered above word for word with the date. She also
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: said to chalk it neatly, because crooked rings embarrass the street,
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  Speaker 1: and hung up laughing. Wages, chalk, money. You will see
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  Speaker 1: why those words matter before this hour is out, too.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: The Henderson's new dishwasher, the fourth. Different brand, blessed with
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: tap water, has completed 17 full cycles without incident, extending
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: the street record by three. And Gary told me, over
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  Speaker 1: the fence, shining the way men shine over unbeaten machines,
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  Speaker 1: and knocked twice on the door for luck. Knuckles first.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: The way you knock on anything that keeps behaving. Two knocks. Measured.
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  Speaker 1: Same as last week. Good luck to the Hendersons. The
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: notebook watches the dishwasher. Seventeen cycles. Two knocks. One unbeaten machine. Three.
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  Speaker 1: The beans stand ready for Tuesday. Lids square, wheels planted.
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  Speaker 1: String coiled in my shed from the finished watch. Tied
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: off the way finished business gets tied. Mrs Alder's lid
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  Speaker 1: gleamed at dusk. The way polished lids gleam. My wheels
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  Speaker 1: stent bare. The chalk long rained away, holding... The lane
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  Speaker 1: lies quiet the way lanes lie between pages, and in
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  Speaker 1: the quiet, behind one gate, eleven heads of December, lids square,
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  Speaker 1: wheels bare, roses open. Both notions are held, neither is underlined.
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  Speaker 1: That is the discipline. This show sits happily in the
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: background while you fold laundry or walk home or wait
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: for the kettle, and I will be here either way,
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  Speaker 1: notebook in hand, doing the noticing. The heads will wait,
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  Speaker 1: the petal will keep, the ring will hold, the dusk
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  Speaker 1: will count, the notebook will minute. And if you enjoy tonight,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: do subscribe so tomorrow finds you on its own. And
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: do share us with the nosiest person you know. Every
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: street has one. In Ipswich, it is. A woman called I,
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  Speaker 1: with her own notebook and her own white roses. And
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: tonight owes you a line as well. I, because your
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: letter showed me, December comes early on more than one street.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: And the notebook has kept that sentence since. The Practical
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  Speaker 1: A first for the night. Kept brief, because eleven heads
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  Speaker 1: claim their hour, while tonight holds the whole eleven. But
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: the standing works like this. Two links keep it up,
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: both waiting open in the show notes. Over on Spreaker,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: the Supporter Club keeps a near door, with support arriving
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  Speaker 1: where you already listen. New pages, where this one found you.
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  Speaker 1: Patreon holds the chi- Longer lane. Early evenings and fuller pages,
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  Speaker 1: with the full roster beside them. Same heads either way.
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  Speaker 1: Same December. Pick your door. Right. Lamp lit. No popocoping.
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  Speaker 1: Pencil up. The resumption is first, because the resumption is owed.
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  Speaker 1: And before the watch, a word for the shelf it
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  Speaker 1: stands on. This evening is brought to you by Upbeat,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: where working shows find music they are properly allowed to use,
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  Speaker 1: and by Willow, who take voice notes for people short
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  Speaker 1: on hours. Both names stand in the show notes, with
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  Speaker 1: the two doors, heads first, the wall run opens the watch.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night, the alarm was wound for half past eleven
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  Speaker 1: by this hand, the way alarms stand wound for stakeouts,
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  Speaker 1: dressing gown over pyjamas, cocoa made, unwanted, regulation. Notebook open.
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  Speaker 1: Pencil up. Midnight. Found me at the bedroom window. Flask
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  Speaker 1: full beside the cocoa. Gerald, cleaned and ready on the sill.
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  Speaker 1: Cocoa cooling. Flask full. Slippers by the bed for the standing.
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  Speaker 1: Dressing gown over pyjamas for the sitting. The way stakeouts dress.
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  Speaker 1: Below lay the lane the way lanes lie after rests.
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  Speaker 1: Curbs quiet. Pages ringed. String coiled away. Bins done, resting done,
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  Speaker 1: and over it all the dark, waiting on music. The
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  Speaker 1: supporters took every entry and full earlier, minutes and fox
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  Speaker 1: and passing, because supporters get the margins. The page hears
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  Speaker 1: the ruling now. The music page holds music. The rose
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: page holds roses. That is the arrangement, and the arrangement holds.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve on the dot brought music. eight bars down the
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  Speaker 1: lane and four outside number nine, counted on fingers under
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: the sill, then the cut, mid-phrase, timed with the first
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  Speaker 1: three nights to the minute, played, shortened, stopped, four weathers
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  Speaker 1: of silence broken, one round resumed. I minuted the shape
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  Speaker 1: with the time, standing at the window in dressing gown,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: because shapes are data, and I kept station through the
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  Speaker 1: leaving minute, twelve past seven, watching the kerb at number
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  Speaker 1: nine through Gerald, lamp to gate to street, the way
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  Speaker 1: you watch anything leaving, empty, chalk ghosts pale in the glow, undisturbed.
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  Speaker 1: But the van had played and gone the way vans go,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: leaving nothing behind but lamplight and kerb. I watched till
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: half-past twelve for a second playing, the way you watch
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  Speaker 1: for encores. None came, one playing, one leaving, One empty curb.
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  Speaker 1: Played once. Left once. Empty still. Half past twelve brought
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: the fox. Down from the allotments. Pausing opposite my gate.
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  Speaker 1: Checking both ways up the played lane. Moving on. Minuted.
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  Speaker 1: Even the foxes checked. One brought nothing but the sleeping lane.
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  Speaker 1: The way Glover's log says. Played or rested. The lane
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: never stirs. Then a tawny. called from the church end
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: twice measured unanswered the high post auditing the resumption the
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: way incumbents audit everything i logged the calls time and
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: all because calls after music are dated too stranger or
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: chairman the notebook never rules it counts two calls no
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: answer the resuming held half past one brought keeper up
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  Speaker 1: the lane for the church end unhurried tail level walking
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  Speaker 1: it the way supervisors walk their floors after hours. Keeper
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  Speaker 1: stopped at my gate, turned, faced the window. Four seconds
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  Speaker 1: of facing, the length of a blank page. Then onward, unhurried,
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  Speaker 1: never looking back bound, for desk and wall. I logged
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: the passing, time included. Four seconds, facing the watcher. Half
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: past two, I stood down, the way you stand down
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  Speaker 1: from anything, and took myself to bed. Seven entries. The resuming.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: The empty. The fox. Checking. The calls. Unanswered. The passing.
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  Speaker 1: Four seconds long. The hatch unwatched for the rest of
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the night. Unwatched as played night sleep. Next follows what
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I never did. And the notebook logs not doing the
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: way it logs everything. I never went down to the gate.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Not once. Not even for the music. which kept me
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: company all night like a second watcher, humming at my shoulder.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I never knocked at number nine. Owls, eleven. Callers, seventeen.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: One brass number. The eighteenth caller was not me, not
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: at half-past midnight, because doors keep their own evenings, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: this one keeps its own. I did not tap along
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: to the eight bars, to greet the music the way
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you greet anything returned. Tappers join in, and joining in
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  Speaker 1: is participation. and participation belongs to customers. Here is the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: ruling the night allows, and the notebook inks proven rotas
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: in pen. The rota runs three on, one off, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: way weeks work. Three played, one rested, one playing more.
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  Speaker 1: Rended twice, dated twice, witnessed by Gerald and the notebook
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  Speaker 1: and nobody else. Either way, the resting breathed as weeks
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  Speaker 1: breathe on Sundays. Or the street spent Tuesday night on
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  Speaker 1: one page, and the page was bins. Both notions stood held.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: The first stands ruled, the second stands filed. That is
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the discipline. And tonight, the second round stands opened, with
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: its second playing due at twelve, the way dews fall.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: The alarm stands wound, the cocoa stands ready, the notebook
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  Speaker 1: stays open. The margins end with the music, the page
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: begins with the bloom. Three on and one off makes
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the first round, ruled and reined. Wednesday opened the second
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: round with its playing. Tonight brings the second playing of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the new round, due at twelve, and Friday the third,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the way rounds run. Either the second round runs three
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and one, the way the first ran, music come to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: roses all week, or the resting comes early again, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the street gets two pages at once. Both notions are held,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: neither is underlined. The notebook counts rounds the way it
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: counts everything. Played and rested. First and second. A word
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  Speaker 1: on the watch before the wall, because the watch has rules,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and the rules are the eyes. 1-1. Heads in order.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Wall run, then gate bed. Left to right throughout, because
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: sequence is data, and data wants sequence. Rule 2. Gerald only.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: No fingers on petals. No breath on heads. Because touching
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: joins in. And joining in is participation. And watching might
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: be participation already. Through glass. Rule three. Every head twice.
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  Speaker 1: Once for state and once for gaps. Because one look
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is a glance and two looks are an inspection. Three rules.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven heads. One dusk. And here is the line I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: am carrying out of this act into the wall, because
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the wall needs it. The resuming is ruled. The rota
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: is pen. What remains is the reading of the heads,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the way readings remain. The wall run is next. The
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: heads are waiting. Seven heads on the climbing stems, taken
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: left to right down the wall, with Mrs. Gulliver watching
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: me count. I took them in order. Gerald up, pencil ready,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: dusk coming down, the way inspections go. Head one, highest, leftmost,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: tight to the wall, above the gate hinge, open four. Petals, cupped,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: edges whole, frost beaded on the outer ring, unmelted. No
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: forcing marks, no torn edges, no gaps. I mini at
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it with the light, because first head set standard. Highest head,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: first mini it, standard set. Head two, a hand, lower,
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  Speaker 1: leaning out from the stems toward the lane, open. Full.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Petals flat and wide. Frost, silvering the tips. Scent coming
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: off it in the cold. Hole. Unpicked, unmoved. The lane-side head.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: First to catch the light at dawn. Head three. Mid-run.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Face height. The show head. The one the curtain watches.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Open widest of the seven. Red. As December cards. Frost
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: beaded deep between the petals where the dusk cannot reach.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I held Gerald on it longest. The way you hold
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: anything central. Full petalled. No gaps. No tears. The show
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: head watched by the curtain. Watching back. Head four. Below
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the show head. Half shaded by the upper stems. Open full.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Darker red in the shade. Frost light on the outer petals.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Scent fainter. Whole. The shade head. Darkest red of the seven.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Head five, right of centre. Brushing a brown hip left
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: over from October. The old season touching the new on
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: one stem. Open full. The hip hard beside it. The
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: petals soft against it. Frost on both. The way Decembers
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: sit beside Octobers on this gate. Whole. October and December
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: sharing a stem. Hips and petals both. Head six. Lower right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Near the gatepost. Frost thickest here where the wall meets
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the stone. Open full. Petals beaded white at the edges. Unmelted. Unbowed. Whole.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: The frost head. Whitest edges on the wall. Head seven. Last. Rightmost. Lowest.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Nearly at the latch height where the war run gives
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: way to the bed. Open full. Petals cupped against the cold.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Frost silvering. Scent rising. Whole. Last of the wall, first
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of the dusk count done. Seven heads, seven opens, seven holes.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I have entered all seven, with the dusk left to right,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and the way you enter anything kept. Wall, holes, seven. Counted,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: not explained. The stems got their minute, because stems carry heads,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and the carrying wants checking. Climbing stems, woody, uncut, no
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: secateur marks, no ties, fresh, no forcing wires, nothing trained
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that was not trained before October. Frost on the bark,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: green under the frost where the stems run young. Either
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the stems never faded at all, and Monday's hips were
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a tale I misread, the way watchers misread all things green,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: all the fading reversed, and the stems opened December backwards,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And the frost is the cause and not the obstacle.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I have underlined nothing. But the stems stand uncut and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the heads stand full. And uncut stems with full heads
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: want no gardener but December. Stems whole, heads whole, frost whole. Dated,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: not explained. The buds got their dusk count because buds
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: are premises and promises want checking. Fourteen buds at dawn,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: tight and green tipped with red. Fourteen buds at noon, unmoved.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Fourteen buds at dusk, counted stem by stem along the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: wall and through the bed, shut still, every one. No openings,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: no swellings past the morning, and the six blown to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sat blown still. Brown edges, loose petals, honest October beside December.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Eleven open, fourteen shut, six gone over. Thirty-one promises. held
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: dawn to dusk. I have ringed the dusk count with
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the dawn count, because rings are for count seen whole,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: held all day, counted thrice. December keeps its number. Dusk
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: gave the frost back and the scent with it. Frost
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: silvering the outer petals head by head as the light went,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: beading where noon had melted it, unmelted again by half
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: past five, scent rising as the frost came down, summer
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: kept over frost coming, layered, unmixed, the way testimony layers.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I stood downwind with the notebook shut a full minute,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the way you stand in anything kept, and breathed it twice,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: because scent is evidence, and evidence wants witnesses. December roses,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: smell of summer kept. The shelf is full. The gate
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: kept the scent. The lane kept the frost. Neither gave
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: back a season. Mrs. Galliver came out while I minuted
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the seventh head, secateurs in hand, uncutting, the way she
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: comes out in everything, completely and without surprise. She stood
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: among the wall run and watched me lower Gerald, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: she looked at the seven heads, the notebook, and me,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in that order, and she said, quote, heads hold, chew,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: end quote, heads hold, two words. I said the wall
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: run was seven for seven, whole throughout. She said the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: dusk counts the same as the dawn, the way she
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: says everything, and went back to not cutting. The dusk
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: counts the same. I wrote it down word for word.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I have ringed it with the seven, because rings are
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for testimony that accumulates. Seven heads. Heads hold. The dusk
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: count matches the dawn count, mine witnessed, hers supplied. Dusk
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and dawn, counted twice. December keeps both. Here is what
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the wall run gave the page, because the wall is
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: half the page. Seven heads, opened in place, frosted unmelted,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: scented summer kept. No head forced, no head placed, no
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: head short of its petals. Either December opened them where
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: they stood, the way seasons open everything, or someone opened
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: them by hand in the dark hours. stem by stem,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: frost and all, and left no mark of the opening.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I have underlined nothing. I have ringed the seven twice,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: because rings are a counting hole, opened where they stand.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Frosted where they opened. Frost hole. Stems hole. Scent hole.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: The war run holds. The gate bed answers next. The
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: practical second for the night. And the reason is tea,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: because even watchers run it. And mine went dry at
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the fifth head. The shape of it is short. Two
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: doors stand open. In the show notes. Patreon mines. The
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: further door this time. First evenings. And longer listens with
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the full roster waiting beyond. Over on Spreaker, the supporter
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: club tent says the near door. Support landing where you
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: listen fresh pages in the pocket app. Same wall either way.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Same seven. Holding still. Same hue. Fast on the pencil. Done.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Practical over. The gate bed is next, and the gate
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: bed as the petal question. Four heads on the bush, roses. Lower, heavier,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: where the wall run gives way to the bed. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: took them after the wall, Gerald up, dusk deepening, the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: way inspections finish. Head eight, first of the bed, leftmost,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: shoulder height on the bush, open full. Petals, broad and loose,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: frost beaded on the outer ring, scent strong off it,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: summer kept over frost coming, whole, unpicked, unmoved, first of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the bed, broad and loose and low, head nine, centre bush,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the heavy head, nodding on its stem with the weight
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of its own opening, open full. Petals layered deep, frost
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: silvering between the layers. No gaps, no tears. I held
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Gerald on it for the count because heavy heads hide gaps.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Full petaled. Whole. Heaviest. Head on the gate. Nodding, but whole.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Head ten. Right of centre. Face height from the pavement side.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: The public head. The one the lane sees. Open full.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Petals flat to the dusk. Frost beaded white at the edges.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Scent rising. Hole. Flat to the dusk and full to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the centre. Head eleven. Last. Latch side. Brushing the gate
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: latch when the wind moves. Open full. Petals cupped. One
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: outer petal creased where the latch kisses it. Frost on
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the crease. Unmelted. Hole. Crease and all. Seen by every passer.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Counted by none. Four heads. Four opens. Four holes. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have entered all four with the dusk. The way you
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: enter anything kept. B-E-D holds four, counted, not explained. Eleven
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: heads red, eleven heads whole. A word on the crease first,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: because creases want ruling out. The latch kisses head eleven
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: when the wind moves, petal to iron, and one outer
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: petal wears the kiss folded. I checked the fold under
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Gerald for tearing, for thinning, for a parting begun. Folded only,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: hole beneath. The latch marks but does not take. Either
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the wind pressed it there, over days, the way winds
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: press everything. All the crease came with the opening. Frost
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: folded at dawn. Both notions are held, neither is underlined.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But the head is full, crease and all, and the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: petal on the stone is creaseless. and creased heads do
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: not shed creaseless petals without a mark somewhere. Fold noted.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Fold ruled out. The eleven stand. The latch gets its
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: minute too because iron wants ruling out. Cold iron, frost filmed.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Kissed by one petaled and holding no prints. My own
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: prints from the gate checks, dated, smudged. Mine. No other marks.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Either the carrier wore gloves, the way carriers wear everything,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Or the carrier never touched the latch, coming over the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: wall or under the curtain. Both notions are held. Neither
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: is underlined. But iron without prints wants a careful carrier,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and careful carriers leave petals, not marks. I unclean, prints mine.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Terrier careful. The gate got checked. The latch got Gerald.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And now the petal question. because the petal lies below
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and the head stand above, and one of them owes
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the stone an explanation. I went back along all eleven
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: with Gerald set for gaps, head by head, slow, the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: way you check anything owed. Every outer petal, every edge,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: every cup for a missing spoon. Head one, full. Head two, full.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Head three, the show head, full to the centre. Heads
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: four through seven, full, full, full, full. Heads eight through ten, full, full, full.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Head eleven, latch side, creased but full. No gaps, no
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: torn edges, no healed scars where a petal parted. Eleven heads,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: every spoon in its cup, and one red petal laid
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on the stone below them. I minuted the finding twice,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: because findings want witnessing. Eight barn and none. The petal
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: belongs to none of the eleven. Carried, not shed. Laid,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: not dropped. Counted, not explained. The petal got its dusk minute,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because signatures want re-reading, and this one is Saturday. Same stone,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: same centre, same lay, set across the stone like spoons.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Red in the lamplight, December red. Frost silvering it again
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: as the dusk deepens. Unmoved since dawn, unbruised still. unclaimed
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: by any head about it. Either the street grew it
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: elsewhere and carried it here, the way rounds carry everything,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: or one head of the eleven shed it whole and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: healed without a mark, the way marvels heal, I have
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: underlined nothing. But eleven full heads and one loose petal
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: want a carrier, and the carrier left no prints, and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the frost kept no record. Petalade, Heads full, carrier unknown, dated,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not explained. The veins got their recount, cause elevens want
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: witnessing twice. Eleven veins at dawn, counted twice under Gerald.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Eleven veins at dusk, counted twice again in the lamplight.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Red on red, beaded with frost coming. Same petal, same count,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: same lay. I have minuted the eleven again with the dusk.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: The number wants no comment from me. It gets one, regardless,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in pencil, on the petal page. Eleven's, again. Veins, then
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: veins now. Counted, not explained. Here is what the gate-bed
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: gave the page, because the bed is the second half
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of the page. Four heads, opened in place, frosted unmelted,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: scented summer kept. One petal, laid by hand, matched in red.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: owned by none. Either December signs its work the way
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: rounds sign their tills, petals for feathers, red for grey,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: or the petal is a message with the heads as
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: its envelope, and I have read the envelope and not
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the letter. Both notions are held, neither is underlined. I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have ringed the eleven with the one, because rings are
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: for count seen whole, opened, not placed. Eleven opened where
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they stand. One laid where it lies. Stems uncut. Frost unmelted.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Scent unsoured. The heads are red. The street speaks next.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: A watcher who only watches alone is only half a watcher.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: The other half is testimony. Thursday got the questions. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: did what I always do when the notebook gets too
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: full of my own looking. I asked the street. Three
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: witnesses and a step. Four statements. All taken in daylight
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: or dusk. All voluntary. None of them simple. All of
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: them Thursday. Witness one. Mrs. Alder. Over the fence. Thursday dusk.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Unprompted first. The way the best lines always come. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: told her of eleven full heads and one ownerless petal.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: She looked at her own finished bushes, the fence, and me,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in that order, and she said, quote, carried, hue, end quote, carried,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: one word. I asked her what carries petals to prepared steps.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: She considered the question the way she considers everything, completely
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and without blinking, and she said, quote, The heads keep
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: what they grow, and the step keeps what it is given.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: The way fences keep everything, heads keep, steps keep. I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: wrote it down, word for word. I have ringed it
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: with the finding, because rings are for testimony that accumulates,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: shed by none, carried. The petal has a carrier now,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: mine witnessed, her supplied, dusk dated, unexplained. I asked her
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: whether carriers knock. She said, carriers carry. The way fences
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: answer questions with the question. Witness two. Mr. Petiffer. Over
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: his own gate. Thursday afternoon. Crossword open. Pencil moving. My
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: dusk count still warm in my notebook. I read him
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the count aloud. Eleven. Open. Fourteen buds. Six blown. Held
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to the head. Space the way. Count space everything. He
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: kept his pencil moving through all of it, the way
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: he does everything, and finished seven down before he answered.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Then he looked up, and he said, quote, holding, hue,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: end quote, and went back to his acrosses, holding, Pettifer's word,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from Pettifer's gate, hours after the elevens, one word. Mime
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: joins his in the notebook, because accumulating testimony once rings, eleven, open, holding,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: The count stands held now. Mine witnessed. His supplied. Pencil. Dated. Unexplained.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I asked him what holding means. He solved eight across
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: before he answered, the way answers wait on crosswords. And
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: he said holding means counting again tomorrow. Then he went
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: back to his downs. Witness. Three. Mrs Glover. Thursday evening.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Through six inches of open window, the way all Mrs
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Glover statements come. In the afternoon she closed the window
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: over the petal question, six inches to none, the way
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: answers close when the evening owns them. Thursday evening found
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: it open again, six inches wide, the way windows stand
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: when evenings arrive. I asked her what she has on
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the laying. She turned pages I could hear but never see,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and she read me entry three, fresh ink the way
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: entries come, fresh. Quote. The petal lay at first light,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: end quote. The petal lay, before dawn, after dark, between
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the readings, and no reading between. I asked her whose
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: hand laid it. Pages turned. Curtain considered. And she said, quote,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: no hands, Hugh, end quote. No hands. Two words. I
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: asked her whether hands had ever entered. Pages turned. Curtain considered.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and she said the log holds no hands all week,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the way logs hold everything by omitting, my finding precisely,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: from behind curtains, at whatever hour Mrs Glover sees things.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Underlined once, in pen, because pen is for testimony that corroborates.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: One week, three entries, the bloom stands open, the buds
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: stood shut, the petal lay at first light, and no hands.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: The street is not describing gardening. It is describing delivery.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: The fourth is not a witness. It is a step,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: read at dusk, the way all step statements come. Thursday,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: half-past five. The third fifty-pence piece sat centred in its
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: chalk ring, winking through the lamplight, the way coins wink
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: when evenings own them, ring full circle, date beneath, unbroken, unstepped.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And across the bare stone beside the ring, the petal,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: laid still, frost-silvering, unmoved, one wink and holding, the experiment
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: stands funded. Either the street takes at its pleasure, the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: way drinkers drink at theirs, or the third coin waits
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: out its taking, the way queues wait out their serving.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Both notions stand held. Neither stands underlined, but five dawns,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: five winks, two takens, one petal, and a ring, down dated.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: The notebook counts change the way it counts everything. Prepared steps,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: held coins, rings drawn. So that is the street. a
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: carrier pronounced over a fence, a holding pronounced over a gate,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: a laying read through six inches of window, and a
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: step still winking at dusk, three witnesses and a step,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: every one of them pointing the same way, the bloom
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: did not open for the street, it opened for the season,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: carried for, held for, laid before light, not explained, counted
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: four ways, held every way, Three questions stood on this
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: gate at dusk, and the street has moved all three.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Who laid the petal? No hands, says the curtain. Carried,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: says the fence. The hands stay unseen, but the laying
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: stands timed. How eleven heads opened overnight. Holding, says the crossword.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Opened where they stand, says Gerald. The opening stays unexplained,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: but the placing stands ruled out. What December wants with
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: one gate? Heads hold, says the dusk. The wanting stays open,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: but the keeping stands witnessed. Moved all three. Closed none.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: The notebook advances questions the way it advances everything. Timed,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: not named. Ruled out, not ruled. Witnessed, not wanted. And
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: here is the notion I am carrying out of this
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: act into the features, because the features need it. If
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: December runs the bloom the way the van runs its round,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: counts and hours and exact change, then the heads on
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the gate are not the only wonder I found this week.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: The ring is a wonder too. And something has been
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: keeping chalk for one dusk. A word on method ahead
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: of the features, because the Steck experiment has rules. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the rules are the till. Rule one. Same step. Same stone.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Same hour. Checked at dawn. because steps want routine, and
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: routine wants dawns. Rule two, fifty pence only, same coinage,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: dated by witness, because exact change is exact and experiments
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: want constants. Rule three, chalk ring, round every coin from
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the third, dated beneath, because Durham advised it, and advice
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: on the record gets followed. Rule four, never lift the petal,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: never spend the coin, because lifting joins in, and joining
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in is participation. The tally stands rules four, dawns five,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: coins three, token two, petal one, and one rule debated
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: and rejected twice now, which I record because rejected rules
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: are data two, the second coin, set beside the first.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Debated after the first taking, rejected, debated after the petal,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: pacing the kitchen the way you pace over method, wondering
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: whether petals want company. Second rejection entered. One station. One coin.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: The way Biscuit keeps one timetable and Dave keeps one round,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: you do not build a second bus stop to test
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the timetable. The second coin stays in my pocket. The
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: notebook files both debates with both rejections, because method refused
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: twice is still method. Features time. And tonight the notebook
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: comes first, because the watch pages deserve to be read
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: aloud in full, the way evidence deserves daylight. From my notebook,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: two pages, written over three dawns and a dusk, abbreviations
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: expanded for the listeners. Page one. Headed, The Rose Watch. Resumption. Wednesday,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: eight and four and cut. Twelve on the dot. Fox checked.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Tawny twice. Keeper passing. Four seconds. Roto ruled, three on
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: one off. Wall run, seven heads, left to right, show
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: head widest, hip touching head, five, latch height, head seven,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: all whole. Date bed, four heads, heavy head nodding, public
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: head flat, latch head creased, all whole, petal, one, red,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: laid across, owned by none. Gulliver. Heads hold. Dusk. Counts
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: the same. Pettifer. Holding. Older. Carried. Glover. Opened, not placed.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: That is page one. Eleven heads, one dusk, one inspection,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: and a margin note at the bottom, added this evening
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: in pencil, because pencil is for notes too big for pen.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: The heads are red. The petal is laid. See page two.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Page two headed The Petal and the Ring. Gap check.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Eleven heads. Gerald twice each. No gaps. No tears. No scars.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Every spoon in its cup. Petal. Dusk menet. Same stone,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: same lay. Frost silvering again. Unmoved. Unclaimed. Step. Dusk check.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Third coin centred. Ring full circle. Date beneath. Winking and halting. Counts.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Five dawns. Five winks. Two takens. One petal. One ring. Rules. Four.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: All held. Second coin. Twice debated. Twice rejected. Keeper answered
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: at dusk. Step empty at evening. Letter. Ipswich. Knights entered.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Ring advised. Ruling. Pencil. Ringed and held. Count. Three coins.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Two takens. One petal. One ring. That is page two.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: One step, one ring, one holding, and a margin note
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: matching page one, same pencil, same evening. The heads and
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the ring are not two mysteries, they are two keepings.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Mind the gate, the saucer ledger next, before the owls,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: because the rota ran two nights more and the ledger
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: wants its lines wrong. The supporters heard boat dawns in
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: full earlier this evening. Plain night and feathered night with
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the thirteenth alder line. The margins keep the minutes. The
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: regulars get the ledger now. Night ten. A dry night.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Milk gone clean. No feather. Saucer dead on the chalk.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Alder over the fence. Unprompted. Again, one word. Twelfth of
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: its line. Night eleven. Frost. Milk gone. Fifth grey feather,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: laid across like a spoon. Twin of the four before it.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Alder over the fence. Unprompted. Five. And counting. Three words.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteenth of its line. Ruling stands. Pencil. The drinker. Drinks
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: when it suits. Five feathers. Two movements. Two untouched. One half.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Three debates. Three rejections. The second saucer refused standing. Night five.
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  Speaker 1: Night seven. The half. Single station. One saucer only. The
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: way Biscuit keeps one timetable and Dave keeps one round,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: you do not build a second bus stop to test
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: the timetable. The cupboard keeps the spare. Make out. Feathers back.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Coins out. Petals back. Saucer plus step make not two
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: mysteries but two tills. Tills serve rounds. Rounds keep customers.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: And the customers, regulars, pay in feathers. Petals, exact change counted.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Mind the step. Mind the saucer. Mind the wall. Mind
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the bins. Mind the chimes. Mind the roses, too. All
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: of it is kept. Keeper next. Before the owls, because
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: rank answered, and the answer stands. At Thursday dusk I
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: went down to my gate, slippers on, notebook open, and
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: keeper sat number seven's step in full view, facing the
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: flowers up lane, one clearing of the throat, one call
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: across the lane, clear and single, quote, keeper, end quote.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: The turn came all the way, green eyes off the flowers,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: green eyes on my gate. Four seconds of it. The
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: length of a blank page. Answered after the silence. The
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: supporters heard it in full earlier this evening. With the
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: dusk and the four seconds and the ring round it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: The margins hold the minutes. The page holds the ruling.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Rank answers again. The count stands four answers to one silence.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Names called. Landlord once. Keeper twice before. Keeper again now.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Answers three. Then a silence. Then this one. Lames are forever.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Answers are nightly. The page named. The dusk kept. Keeper. Forever.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night gave the desk its reading, because attendances count
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and the notebook counts them. Half past one Keeper on
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: the wall outside my window. Green in the glass. Reading
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: over my shoulder through the small hours. Minutes open. Pencil across.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: One night attended. One visit. First since bin night. The
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: supporters heard it in full earlier this evening. With the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: wall and the green and the ring round it. The
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: regulars hear the ruling now. The cat reads. Rounds slip
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: without the cat. Minutes get red with the cat on
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the desk. Thursday evening, coming back from Mrs Glover's window,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I passed number seven, and the step stood empty. No
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: green eyes. No facing. Keeper. Gone about the round. The
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: way rank goes when evenings own it. I minuted the
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: emptiness with the hour, because empty steps are dated too.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: The answering stands. The facing stands. The step stands empty.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Mind the step. Mind the answering. All of it is kept.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: All of it is heard nightly. And now, Owl of
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the Week. Regular show edition. And I will give the
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: ceremony its full honours, because this week the birds worked
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: boom week and the bloom opened under each. The rules
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: for the new listeners. One. Owl. Finest of the past
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: seven days. Full reasoning. No favouritism. Marjorie, present in every comparison.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: The way she's present in every night. The short list
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: this week. Biscuit. The little brown owl of number seven.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Digestive brown. Keeper of the timetable. For a full fortnight unbroken.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Ten past three. Nightly. Three rocks. Nightly. Never two landings.
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  Speaker 1: Never four. No early nights. No excuses offered. Fortnight. Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: First of its kind. Minuted throughout. The timetable was magnificent.
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  Speaker 1: And barred from tonight, because the birds do not win
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: twice in one week across either edition, by the newest
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: ancient rule, made up Tuesday last, seconded by the pencil,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: witnessed by the notebook, and biscuit took tonight's premium edition.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: The rule is the rule-chairman of the belfry, the tawny
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: for the high-poster. For the turn on Wednesday, tined off
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: my landing window, church corner to down lane with the
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: first bars, and back with the cut, the way incumbents
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: face music. Rain running off nothing, frost on nothing yet,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the turn clean in dry air. The turn was magnificent,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: the facing stands. But the turn belonged to Wednesday's resuming,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: already minuted in the margins, and tonight belongs to Thursday's bloom.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Music week's honour turns, bloom week's honour patience. The grey one,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: for floating between beats the way it floats, unroasted, unafraid,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the only bird on the lane, with no station and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: no elves. Resting this week the way winners rest, carrying nothing,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: proving nothing, present the way it is present, weighed briefly,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Set aside briefly, resting is not keeping, and bloom week
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: belonged to keeping. The float was magnificent. The rest stands
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: earned tonight. Enter Marjorie, of the forty-two visits. Marjorie, the
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: barn owl. Feather on the doorstep. The benchmark against which
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: all strangeness is measured, present in every comparison. The way
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: she is present in every night, the way she will
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: be present in every ceremony. until this show ends. Four candidates.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: No easy choice. Biscuit had the timetable, perfect at last,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and the rule against it. Chairman had the height and
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the turn and the wrong evening. The grey one had
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the rest and the float and the week away. Marjorie
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: had the history and the feather and patience of stone.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Forty-two visits logged in. The bloom opened under her beat.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: But the award, this week, goes to the bird that
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: watched the roses open. Marjorie again, Marjorie the barn owl herself,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: owl of the week, regular edition, with full honours, for
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: the highest beat, for forty-two visits, timed and minuted, kept
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: through music and silence and frost and bloom. For holding
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the benchmark while the street opened, December, two months early, unhurried, unbowed, Silent,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: the way benchmarks stay silent. The rules bars a second
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: premium running and a second win in one week across editions.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: No rule bars the benchmark to regulars running, because no
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: bird are earned till tonight. May its wings be white
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: and its visits be counted. And Biscuit, wherever you are
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: roosting tonight, you remain the keeper of the timetable. And
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the timetable remains the finest thing on this street. A
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: perfect fortnight is a perfect fortnight, whatever the ceremony rules.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Even Marjorie knows it. She kept the high beat, and
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: never touched the round. That is the highest praise this
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: notebook can pay. Chairman, though, where have you perched tonight?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: You remain the high post, and the high post remains
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the finest seat on this street. The bloom knows it too.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: It opened, and you faced the music, and the facing holds.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Count the weeks. Log the months. Marjorie outlasts them all.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: One more piece of post before we close, because the
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: ledger grows whether I am ready or not. A listener letter,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: ninth of its line, posted from Ixwich, from a woman
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: signing herself I. It seats her next to D and
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: R and T and M and S and E and
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: J and N in the file. All nine seated together,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: on purpose, because the watchers are finding each other and
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the file should reflect it. The supporters heard it read
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: in full earlier this evening, with the white heads and
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: the ring advice. The regulars hear the entering now. Aye,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: rites of terrace roses bloomed again in October, white and scentless.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Six open heads were September left going over. She counted twice.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Dated the count and kept station at her window with
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: her notebook shut. Her own cocoa. Unwanted. Regulation. Her own pencil. Up.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Two nights. Bloom. Holding. Frost. Nowhere. Van. Never. Roses and
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: quiet only. Gone ordinary by her gate each morning. The
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: way marvels go. She ends with the sentence going on
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: the questions page beneath question twelve. Quote. Hugh, if December
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: comes early to procured steps, what comes early to unprepared ones? Ipswich,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: my dear watcher, your street stands entered as ledger entry nine.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: As for prepared or unprepared, the notebook holds both notions.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Perhaps December's show on some streets, perhaps frosts only breathe
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: on others. Count the heads, never the petals, and date
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: every bud. Petals fall, Heads hold. Three dawns, minimum, are
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: for any ruling, the way the rota teaches. A fourth
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: dawn holding means Ipswich has posted back. Whiteheads in October,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: redheads in December. Two streets, one post. Either way, write
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and tell me. The ledger grows by post, and post
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: runs both ways now. I N D J R, T, M, S, E, V,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: any of you ever meet, and I have a feeling
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: you might, tell each other, Hugh says hello. The watchers
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: are finding each other. It was only a matter of time. So,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: here we are, at the close of our seventh evening together,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: and I want to tell you what these roses taught me,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: completing our set of eight. sets matter to men with notebooks.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: The owls taught me that the street keeps secrets until
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I am ready. The house taught me that watching might
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: be participation. that some things stand because someone stands looking.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Number seven taught me that the watched were never worried,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: that while I crept about with binoculars and logs, the
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: family had already decided I was the minutes. The margins
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: taught me that the watched read back. That six years
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: of reports went into a correspondence and not a draw.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: The page taught me to write as if read. Every line,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: every ruling, every quote set apart. Mark that. The bins
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: taught me to put out square. The street notices. Out
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: as put, back as do. The van taught me to
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: stand in the queue properly, the way queues deserve, chimed
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: four and served at midnight, and the roses showed me
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the eighth lesson, the one I will carry the longest,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: and it is this, prepare the step. December comes early
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: to prepared steps, and early counts want early watchers. The
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: heads got Gerald. The petal got Minutes. The ring got Chalk.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Eleven opened. One laid. One drawn. Buds got counted. Frost
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: got minuted. Dusk got the same. Coats got frosted. Pencils
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: got worn. Notebooks got December. Steps got short. Coins got centred.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: I came to Bramall Lane to watch. I appear to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: be filed. Every street should have minutes. Ours has me.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: And now roses have the minutes. Never have I watched
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: mine with greater care. Before I go, the usual three things,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: plus a fourth, because the roses earned it. First, thank you.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: For tonight, for last night, for the messages, for R
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: in Leeds and T in Bristol and M in Manchester
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: and S in Sheffield and E in Exeter and J
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: in York and N in Norwich and D in Durham
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: and for I in Ipswich. Newest watcher on file. Ninth
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: of nine. Terrace and old. For every listener who has
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: checked their own gate since this show began and found
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: it stranger than it was, I hope, do subscribe so
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: tomorrow finds you. And do share us with the nosiest
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: person you know. Second, our sister shows for the hours
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: between nine and nine. Aura for nights stiller than mine
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: and time to relax. For slow nights and soft landings. Siblings,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: waiting patiently, the way siblings wait. Third practical, last of
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the night, brief by oath, because the dusk is short
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: and the heads are many. If the roses were worth
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: your Thursday, two doors hold it standing, both in the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: show notes. Patreon keeps first nights and further evenings like
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: this one, blooms and all with the whole roster beside.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: Spreaker's Supporter Club is the short road, a step from
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: this episode. Same dusk, same keeper, minding the roses. Same hue,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: filed and done. Done. Proctical over. Well, the watch holds. Fourth.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: The open questions page. Updated. Because the page moves whether
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: roses bloom or not. Question one. Who lives? And number nine. Status. Advanced.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. Reviewing the chimes. Toll on dot. Eight bars
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and four and cut. Empty curb under the lamp. Chalk ghosts, pale, undisturbed.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: The fox checked. The tawny called twice. Eleven owls. Seventeen callers.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: One grass number. Zero answers. And one banana bread. Eaten.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Standing up. Entered. As evidence. Keeper faces the gate from
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the step on bloom nights lately, the way keeper faced
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: number nine on chine nights. N's wheels turn square in Norwich,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and the notebook wanders idly, the way notebooks wonder whether
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: the bins at number nine go out at all. Sell open.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Question two. Who runs the post, the beats, the rota,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: the weekends, the walls, the bins, the trines, and now, perhaps,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: the roses? Status expanded again. The eleven heads sit beside
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: it now. Opened overnight. December red. No season. One petal
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: on the step. Laid across. Veins eleven. Signed for. Eleven
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: heads full petaled. No gaps. The petal owned by none.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: But who holds the rotor? Who grows December roses? Who
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: lays petals at dawn? Who keeps the steps open as ever?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Still the biggest question in the book. Question three. What
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: do the letters say? Status unchanged and maddening. Not one
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: word read. Not one envelope opened. The promise stands. Before
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: this show is done, I will read an owl letter
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: with my own eyes. Or I will find out exactly
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: why I cannot. Question four. Who else is watching? Answered
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: in full and still growing. The reader. with a pencil,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: back at the desk on Wednesday, reading over my shoulder.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: I and Ipswich, formerly entered this week, ninth watcher, ninth city,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: N in Norwich, chalking still, J's giving way in York,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: filed beneath it, the dogs, silent through all hours, forty-one
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: pigeons in a ring, the milkman, watching bottles, and keeper
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: answering again, formally logged this week, which brings the list
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: up to date, and the date is tonight. I's sentence
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: about the unprepared sits beneath this question now. Perhaps December
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: comes early to all steps. Perhaps the prepared ones only bloom.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: The notebook holds both notions. It can afford to. It
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: has a dozen questions and room for more. Question five.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: What is coming? Closer, I reckon. Closer every night. The
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: flashes broke. The curtain moved. The saucer came back empty.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: The milk went halved in frost. The book came open.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: The bin came heavy and opened. The chimes played and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: rested and played again. The roses opened in frost. Long
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: nights ahead. Question six. What is Bramble House? Waiting. Not where,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: not when. What? First data point in. Something drinks milk.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Something with table manners. The fifth feather counts as the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: same drinker with new edges, not a second point. Second
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: data point pending. The way all Bramble House data is pending.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Question seven. Retired. Gone. Clean. Feather across. The first question
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: on this page to close and it stays closed. Question eight.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Dorio Echope drank the milk and what does the grey
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: feather mean? Status. Advanced. Eleven nights. Logged. Five feathers. Twin barred.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Laid across like spoons. Two movements. East half and west quarter.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: No prints. Two untouched nights. One rain. One dry. One half.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Frost rimmed. Mrs. Older testifying in thirteens. The drinker drinks
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: when it suits. And the notebook has ruled it. In pencil.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Because pencil is for drinkers. But who drinks? And why feathers?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: And why halves still open? The saucer. Goes back down tonight. Refilled.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Same wall. Same milk. Same hour. Milk down at midnight.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Check at dawn. The rotor holds. Watch this space. Watch
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: the milk. Question nine. How long has the notebook been read? Status, quiet,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: four mornings, closed as left. Pencil across. And Thursday, the
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: pencil lay a quarter inch left of its mark. Sharp end,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: toward the margin, no new marks. If the reading started Sunday,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: the correspondence is two weeks old. If it started earlier,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Every ruling I have underlined was read before I underlined it.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: The pencil is sharpened. The margins are watched. The question stands.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: It stands firm. Question ten. Who, oh ill, filled the bin?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: And one does the fifth cross mark? Status still quiet.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Out light. Back rinsed. Lorry Wednesday morning. Night rain. Wash
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the chalk. The string sits coiled in the shed still.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Eleven bundles filed. One station chalked. And where the street
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: files leaves, the accounts are bigger than milk. If the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: street chalk stations, the audit keeps chalk as well as pencil.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Chalk washed. Station watched. The question stands. Question eleven. W-O-Y-E buys.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: At midnight. And what does silver buy? Status quiet. The hat.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: went unwatched through the resumption. Played night sleeping the way
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: played night sleep. Three figures served in order stands. Three
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: filvers passed stands. No fourth stands. If three are served,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: three are counted. If the rear stands empty, the shape
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: is the holding. The queue stands minute. The till stands watched.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: The question stands. And new tonight. Question twelve. Written in
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: capitals with the date. Why are the rosies blooming? Eleven open,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: fourteen buds, six blown, one gate, five gardens finished. One petal,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: veins eleven, owned by none. Chalk ring gown, dated Thursday,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: D's method, three litmuses and a step. Iso-sentence about the
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: unprepared sits beneath it. Dusk holds the bloom. Stone holds
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the petal. Chalk holds the ring. Watch this space. Watch
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: the gate. All three holdings hold. And now, the reason
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: you must come back tomorrow. Because the ring stands its
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: first night tonight. Three coins down. Two takens. One ring drawn.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Taken or held? Lifted or stepped? Tomorrow I will walk
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: the verdict of the chalk, the way verdicts deserve. And
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: there is something else besides, something in the sky over
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: the church end, where cloud banked at dusk and held
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: without breaking, cloud high and slow, grey over grey, the
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: way weather stacks before it moves. Held, not underlined. I
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: am saying no more. The ring waits for its night. Tomorrow,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: it tells. Chalk down, coying centred, night falling. The ring
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: holds the answer. The dawn reads it. Be here for
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: the reading. Sleep well. Keep one eye on your own street,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: and the other on the chalk ring, and Hugh will
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: see you at nine.