Hazelbrook got a new bridge last night. After more than 120 years of township, a (pedestrian)bridge finally spans the Great Western Highway, linking the station directly with the northern part of the town. Before going to bed for what turned out to be a restless night, we watched the raising of a huge crane, which held an enormous yellow two fingered V to a pitch sky. Later the single steel span of bridge made its way along the closed highway for installation in the prepared location. This morning, there it was, and quite a surprise too. The design will probably polarize opinion, for it has the look of a giant meccano set about it. It certainly makes a statement.

Listening to the marvellous Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams. I can't put this sublime piece into any desciptive context - nothing comprising words, anyway. It has no counterpart in the language. I am swept away by it - emotionally, intellectually. Kotoba ga nai.

Raining outside and quite wild too. Tom is sleeping after our umpteenth star wars encounter and a lengthy digression into the story of the fourth pig (after The Three Little Pigs). We have run out of story books and my poor imagination has been pressed into unwilling service.