Ferren's report

Ferren wrote of the conflagration at OllaBendicks gaff:

"I was there. In fact, I was the first to notice that
something was burning....

We were lucky, in one sense. The pompiers pointed out that \
if the acetylene tank had blown, it would have taken out
the house and spectators. (Molf * and I would have survived:
he was trying to escape, and I was trying to keep him off
the road, talking to him and explaining his new
responsibilities toward OB, and we were both below the brow
of the hill and could not actually see the activity.)
The fire got as far as melting the plastic bits of the
acetylene pressure regulator, so it was a credible threat.

I left some spare hand tools on their kitchen table this
afternoon (cordless drill and a box of drill & screwdriver
bits); Alan-from-Bugarach has said OB can use his workshop
to build door and window for the upstairs room. What would
help most of all is for someone to discover a set of good
images of the Toledo book lurking in a computer somewhere,
but this doesn't seem very likely.



* A dog; one of six or so

Bob, Ian and Pete are taking a drawing board and an easel up
to the ruin tomorrow morning. All will be well>>>> and in the
meantime big kisses to Ollebendick and Aileen