This reminds me of this Christmas when I went home to my parents'
outside New Orleans and read in their paper that the records division of
one of the parishes (similar to a county) had to dispose of a backlog of
records and decided the best way to do so was to burn them on the levee
(there is a huge tradition of lighting the way down the river for Pere
Noel with gigantic log bonfires on the levee -- quite beautiful) and
proceeded to do so on a windy afternoon. Half-burned documentation
rained down upon the townfolk for several days, and quite a few of them
had been the subject of this documentation, so it stirred up a lot of
trouble. The records division said it was all public-information
documentation anyway, so what's the problem, but they decided to take
the next batch to the incinerator!
Keep Triumphing,
Susan :)
John Macartney wrote:
>
> Paul Richardson wrote:
>
> >letters from my late godfather Raymond Mays and a bunch I'd better burn
> >before Julia gets home
>
> Well, I haven't checked in to Northborough by phone as I've been taking my
>ease by the
> fire and unsuccessfully fighting off sleep. Seems there's been a strong east
>wind across
> England today and the driveway outside my house is now covered in a strange
>ash !
>
> Jonmac
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