Communities, polytunnels, swords and grapes.

I'm part of this community. We live in the countryside, and there are about a hundred of us or more.

There is a very strong craft focus in this community, and we have been shown how to use a forge, make wooden and steel tools, axes, knives, chisels and even swords.

I am comparing the different swords that have been made. Some are heavier than others and I think that the heavier ones must be stronger, because the metal must be denser.

We have been building a polytunnel on the community land which I have been organizing, and now lots of people are involved with building it, because it is really quite big.

One dominating character comes along to get involved, and she decides to have a group meeting to plan what must be done next. I know perfectly well what needs doing next, but everyone stops what they are
doing and listens to her.

 I am now at a meeting where she is asking people to put there hands up to speak, and everytime I put my hand up to speak, she let's someone else speak. She has hijacked the polytunnel building for her own benefit. At the end of the meeting I tell her that I felt I had not been listened to.

She apologized but I could see she didn't really mean it.

So now we try to get on with polytunnel building and no one knows what we are supposed to be doing, because everyone is confused from the meeting we just had.

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S returns something to me that I made 3 yrs ago, and I pass it on to M. I wander with M through fields and vineyards, picking juicy grapes and popping them in my mouth. Its harvest time and the golden yellow sun shines down autumn golden on the south facing chalky flinty soils. asparagus grows amongst the vines, ready to grow back when the spring comes again.