My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

My father is so funny sometimes...he's like a big kid. There's this tree stump that has been in our backyard since he decided to chop down our childhood treehouse, for no reason other than he decided it was getting old. The stump has sort of been there almost mocking him ever since.

He's tried to saw it up to no avail - now his latest idea is to burn it out. So he piled up all of these bits of wood and other combustible things, added a touch of petrol, and then lit it all up. The other things burnt out and the stump still looks as good as it did the day it became a stump.

He just told me that he can't do anything this weekend (the third one in a row) because he's hard at it burning his stump out - in between rain showers and it not ever having actually caught alight no matter what he does - I can't help but wonder how far he will get this weekend!