Friday, 27 April 2012
The tragic fall..
I am in sheffield in netheredge, and I am showing some friends round
russel's parents house..
Its much bigger than we imagine it to be, they are still working on
it. Its as if they are building about 6 mansions all on the same bit
of ground. The scale is unbelievable. And they are using al old
fashioned building techniques.
I see russels dad working away, and he shouts down, "have you seen the
tower?" He points to this tall circular tower, and suddenly I'm
transported to another time, and its a hot summers day and visitors
are going up the tower to see the views from the top. The views are
spectacular, and russel's parents have been charging some money for
this.
I go up with 2 friends from my primary school, and we climb right to
the top room. We meet a bunch of girls just below the top room, and
they help us into the top room but won't join us there, its too scary.
There are these little windows for looking out at the views. This top
part of the tower is rotational, and cause its a windy day its
spinning round and round in circles, making us quite dizzy.
We are all a bit nervous about standing up because it feels like the
tower will colapse, but when we do, we can see through this higher
window, which not only shows us the city below, but also over the
hills and yonder, a view of everything.
One of my friends, the less cautious one, gets a bit over bold when I
say its time to climb back down.. He climbs out of the window of the
tower and begins to climb down the outside of the tower! One slip of a
hand and that will be the end of him.
He does slip, and falls hundreds of feet onto the ground below.
We run down the tower and at the bottom we meet nurses. Miraculously
my friend has not died, but he is likely paralyzed for life.
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Later I find myself at coed, and timo has been working on a new crazy
sculpture.
I have my shed at coed, and people are visiting me in it.
Some people don't want me to be there, and some people do. Its a
confusing state of affairs, so I just act the fool and pretend I don't
know any thing about it.
Labels:
cautions,
climbing with friends,
Coed,
falling,
friends,
high places,
look out,
netheredge,
sheffield,
Towers
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