Soaked through.
One of my worst nightmares occurred the
other day and I’m still going through it. The situation: Manet’s garden in
Giverny, family day out. Shit weather but beautiful surroundings. I’m just
starting to assume my Monty Don persona, along with a side order of requisite
silliness for the children present when I receive a call. It’s Antonin, my
stepson, who is back in the UK. I take it and immediately enter a world of
pain. He happened to be passing by the
house and went in, presumably to steal food, and was greeted by water spurting
everywhere. He’s panicking so I get it together enough to tell him where the
stopcock is and then start panicking myself.
At this point I’m relaying info to
Emmanuelle, who tells me to call the emergency plumber through the insurance,
which I do. Further communication with Ant reveals the situation to have been
resolved, but not before quite a lot of flooding had occurred, SOAKING
SHITLOADS OF MY RECORDS! By this point I’m starting to visualise the scene that
will greet us on our return., so I urge Ant to get as many of them as possible
out of the water and onto anything dry.
We return home more than a day early to be
greeted by tons of wax all over the place. It’s an ongoing process. I’m trying
to save as many as I can, but a lot are lost. I estimate around a thousand.
They say your whole life flashes in front of you when you die, but it’s already
happened to me, well the last twenty years or so anyway. Everything in plain
sleeves, particularly black or white, will live to fight another day. What’s
frustrating is that those with the artwork, the most original packaging, are
the ones which depreciate the quickest. As can be seen from previous posts, I’d
just started cataloguing on Discogs, but the last hundred or so will have to be
struck off, as they’ve succumbed to the mess. I’ll also have to resume the
filing at a much later date. Half of the ground floor has to be ripped out and
replaced first.
Still in shock, but life goes on. Still
looking for my brand new clear vinyl copy of the new Der Zyklus album.
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