Talking of fairies, they may hold the explanation for why things have all gone wrong with John O'Sullivan's bike and as I was about to post a note on this, curiously spooky confirmation came on the tv.
John made the error of tearing up the natural flora outside his house. Instead of things as they were meant to be and have always been, the ground has been cleared, flattened and turned to lawn. Carelessly, he has displaced the fairies at the bottom of his garden. As is their way, their revenge is to turn his beloved V.11 to plasticene, bit by bit from the inside out.
As I say, confirmation appeared on tv. Out of the blue, there has just been a piece about the tragic story of John Z. Delorean. The sudden, drastic downturn in the car-maker's fortune (and that of his factory workers and partners) came soon after a fairy tree was dug out at his factory premises.
I wonder, was a Hawthorn felled in Mandello, in 2002?