Bloke who's garden backed onto ours was digging a pond one year. We used to sit in the hole and pretend to row chanting yo heave ho. He was one of those old.time.sorts who wouldn't leave the house without a cap. You could watch him in the house once he'd spotted you and then be gone by the time he'd got.dressed properly. Kid who.lived next door to him let a powerful.firework off in his greenhouse which pretty.much destroyed it. There's always someone who takes things too far.
Currently reading The World We Choose. We're fucked but we don't have to be is my take.