For if you do I shall be very cross with you and I will very much enjoy flinging monkey poo in your general direction,’ Elizabeth said in a pitch pe...fect accent before laughing. ‘Oh man that’s fantastic!’ Perry excused himself to go use the ‘loo’ as he put it. While there he was shaking his head asking himself if he really was on a date with a movie star. When he returned to the dining room he saw Elizabeth smile and sign her autograph for a waiter who was obviously a fan of hers. He certainly. He then got out, walked round the front of his car and opened the door for me to alight. I did so and thanked him for his courtesy. He waited until I was seated in the driver seat of my car and then he got back into his, He then did a u turn and drove back past me and I followed behind him home.We drove a little way out of town and then turned up a farm road to what had once been a farmhouse complete with barns and outbuildings. The yard, however, was completely laid with red coloured tarmac. ‘If you care, I do know that Isobel and you had a fling. Don’t be upset and don’t expect it to happen again.’ In fact Isobel had almost said that it wouldn’t. ‘And if you’re interested, I’m interested in you.’ Her hand rested on my knee which was covered by my long skirt. ‘Are you interested?’ I almost laughed. I mean, who wouldn’t be interested? She was so tall and slender – almost coltish long legs, and her face was an artist’s delight with its contrasts of dark hair, pale skin, clear white. I felt that my only opportunity was to gather stores and explore up river.Oh my, I bought supplies. I gathered shovels, rope, axes, wedges, hammers, half a hundredweight in foot long spikes, spare auger bits for the carpenter's chest and a fresh set of saws. I also cheaply bought a hundredweight of heavy rope ends from three to twelve feet long and a dozen huge bags made of heavy sacking. I purchased a large barrel of salt and another of lard, several dried hams, bags of dried beans, two small.