Personal Experiences - A Needle In A Haystack
Avril’s strange association with signs
and symbols as a means to governing her life, extends into what Malcolm
describes as a ‘cybernet alphabet’.
A most recent example of this interesting study occurred in April 2000
when Avril bought duvet covers for a bed covering in her caravan in which she
and Malcolm were temporarily living.
The character and theme of the duvet design was the cartoon figure of
“Toad of Toad Hall” from the book “The Wind In The Willows”; a classic fantasy
for children by Kenneth Grahame.
Upon returning home for work late at
night only a few days later, Malcolm and Avril found to their disbelief that the
caravan had been hooked up in broad daylight and ‘towed’ away by thieves. The story, however, does not end
here.
Usually, such a shock would precipitate
a traumatic outburst on the third day following, but no such trauma was
forthcoming, both worrying and puzzling Malcolm, who began to wonder if Avril
was in denial of the theft.
Almost one month later to the day,
whilst returning from a business trip 15 miles away, Avril suddenly and
unannounced drove her car off the beaten track, and regular return route, and
along a dirt track leading into a caravan park. After two minutes of driving about
inside, and hidden from sight, there was our caravan.
Avril’s ‘landscape’ as Oliver Sacks
would call it, or her ‘department’ as Avril refers to it, had given her the
information.
Malcolm
& Avril Jenson in their private capacity invite comments and can be
contacted at the following email address… [email protected]