All is quiet in The Manse. We live on the edge of the village, behind some mature trees. I can’t hear the wind in the trees. I hear some scurrying about outside. Sounds like one of the squirrels making her trip from the trees to the bird feeder.
I have a lie in to mark the successful conclusion of part 2 of my trilogy. Little Grapefruit’s travels have taken the pressure off for a few days. I’ve been doing some sorting and packing. After the church merger we’re moving in a month, destination unknown.
Ali is stressed of course. The documentation for The Manse and the church is all in his name. I’ve been doing what I can. But there are distractions everywhere. The cats, who I think are ours rather than The Manse’s knows that something is up. B____ has already been locked in the eaves once, and K____ has been bringing up her breakfast.
I make a list of things to do and use this to draw up a Gantt chart, colour coded for household, new job and GANTOB (the project). There are 33 days left before I can come out of character and disappear back into the real world. Part 3 of my trilogy.
After tomorrow I will be handing over the blog to GANTOBers. I have received enough submissions to make this a worthwhile endeavour, with more contributions promised. I will still have some blogs of my own to write, and I will need to try to tie it all together into some sort of konklusion, though life rarely fits into neat calendar years. Returning to my earlier reading about the “intentional fallacy” It all feels rather democratic. It certainly fits with my earliest ideas around “repositioning” when I was trying to work out how GANTOB fits into The KLFRS: “changing the image of (a company, product, etc.) to target a new or wider market”.
I think that we can answer the question asked in the unnumbered pamphlet “You Decide”. If you haven’t read that pamphlet, you can read more and apply yourself (deadlines are there to be ignored). Currently we are at exactly 23 copies of GANTOB’s 2023: A trilogy. I don’t think that I need explain the significance of 23 to you reader. Might we reach 45? As I said, you decide. I’m still waiting on an application from ChatGPT (other platforms are available).
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29 November 2023
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