I remembered seeing her in a wet white T-shirt when she was about ten with her cute little nipples sticking out of her flat chest. Around eleven I saw...her out searching for her cat in a cute little baby doll nightie, without any underwear on. I knew that because I had offered to hold the ladder while she climbed up to look for her cat on the porch roof. At twelve I saw her in her panties and bra running to the end of her yard and back as part of a truth or dare game with some of her. For example, we could generate ideas quicker than we had before, sometimes even without all of my minds participating. Previously if something was happening that kept one mind busy (something tricky at school say), the other mind was effectively on its own. Now something that kept one mind busy still left three to do other things.So a new mental structure became possible: we could form committees! Unlike the jokes I'd heard on TV, our committees will be very effective. We'll be able to divide. I was seated just around the corner and when she pulled her chair in and relaxed, I felt the soft sensation of her knee against mine. I suddenly wished I had thought of changing out of my daggy navy work around the house shorts and slightly shabby T-shirt. I trembled at her touch. Here I was sitting next to a beautiful woman, my neighbour for fifteen years, with whom I had only previously exchanged casual conversation over the fence. Now I was seated next to her having seen more of her,. This sudden change of location for the battalion was due to an attack made on a lock of a Gloucestershire canal. Damage to the lock gates had resulted in traffic along the canal being at a standstill for three days. The authorities feared similar attacks could be made on any of the many canals that criss-cross England. This network of canals was a modern wonder of the world, where materials and manufactured goods flowed to and fro between factories and sea ports. The canals were the arteries of.