A summer jetty

Thinking of a cool vacation near water.

Tom: We used to spend summers at the lake.

Mary: A cabin or a tent?

Summer 1956

Tom: Both. The cabin was small and the kids slept in a tent. A heavy canvas one, it took ages to set up.

Mary: Not like the modern ones which pop up almost as easily as an umbrella. Well almost. It was near the water?

Tom: Ten meters back from it. A jetty jutted into the water, an old Frostbite tied up. That jetty, it was a place of magic, a place of mischief. You never knew if the fish would bite and there was a small boy always lurking to push people into the water.

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Voice-over

Summer lakes lure us to cool pools. Especially from 35 degree city swelters. Better yet if there is jetty with a boat tied to it. Something about messing about in boats, as the vole said to the mole in Wind in the Willows.

Inside-out campfire

ARE YOU SURE THIS FIRE
ISN'T INSIDE-OUT?

On observing porcelain rabbits in a PMA's terrarium…

Sam: What are they doing?

Pam: They're warming themselves.

Sam: What is this?

Pam: It's a log.

Sam: And these?

Pam: Stones, it's a campfire.

Sam: Campfires usually have stones round the outside and logs in the middle.

Pam: It's a post-modern campfire.

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Voice-over

If you take a non-camper to the mountains, and merely tell them, “gather some sticks and stones,” something odd like an inside-out campfire could result. Post-modern artists (PMAs) without survival skills face cold nights.

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