Big Problem, please help, but don't laugh!

[jerryrm]

You two cement and wall lovers are giving me the shivers. I am reminded of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado".

[Katfish]

Just off to google that one Jerry

[jerryrm]

He was an early 19th century American poet and writer Kat, he is very well know in the states. The Cask of Amontillado is a short story about a disagreeable fellow who is lured into a wine cellar and then sealed up behind a wall.

There were rumors that it was based on a true story about a Captain Green, who was stationed at a fort in Boston Harbor. Captain Green was a mean tempered and disliked person who killed a young Lieutenant in a duel and then deserted from the Army, never to be seen again.

That was the official story, but there were rumors that friends of the Lieutenant got their revenge on Captain Green, by sealing him up in a small room in the fort. Very few people believed the rumors, until some years later, renovations were being done on the old fort and a wall was removed. Behind it was a small room and in the room, a skeleton chained to a wall. Hello Captain Green !!!! The rumors were true.

I think I will avoid people who are fond of mixing cement and building walls. LOL

[Katfish]

Yes Jerry, very wise

Will have to buy the book, it sounds like my kind of story!

[jerryrm]

I have one Kat, "The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe". It's great reading, especially on a stormy evening during Halloween season.

[Scylla]

I think Poe is just as well-known over here as he is over there, and admired, Jerry. Not my cuppa tea but I've read quite a lot of his short stories, just because I thought I oughta

scylla

[Katfish]

I will have to catch up with Poe, as I love the macabre
He will have to wait for October 31st, though, because I am still caught up with mooding.
My first idea went belly up, because I had to use glue and I stuck my idea firmly and fastly to the work bench > Had to whack it off with the lump hammer!
My second idea for an interchangeable mod is doing a little better, but it isn't very pretty, in fact it is LUMPY, but so simple if I could get my blerdy brain around the stylish part

[Chrissie]

Agrees with Scylla, Edgar Allen Poe is very well known over here, especially for his horror stories like The Pit & The Pendulum. Lol kat, I think Halloween would be a very good time catch up on Poe

For anyone who hasn't seen the crooked wall I built, I made it crooked on purpose - honest



*It's the likkle low wall, not the big old one behind it *

[Katfish]

Wow Chrissie,
did you do the tarmac too?
The planting is lovely, I do like Cyclamen, but what is the big red tree in the middle,
Lovely job, by the way, very good pointing, I use a lolly handle for mine

[Chrissie]

Yep did the tarmac as well

The big red shrub in the middle is a berberis.

[jerryrm]

It looks fine to me. Very nice, Chrissie.