Jennifer Jayne

            On Sunday morning I worked out half the chords for “Ma lou Marilou” by Serge Gainsbourg.

            Around midday I organized all the papers on the bottom shelf in my bedroom and put them in three piles: my essays, my notebooks and my French exercise books. I still have to coordinate them with the papers I sorted on the upper shelves, then I have to clean the shelves and put everything back into place. Since there are no longer books on the lower bookshelf I have to figure out what to put there. I also think I’m going to make an even lower shelf, since the slots for it are already in the wall. I just need to buy another board and two brackets from the hardware store.

            For lunch I made toast pizza with tomato sauce and cheese slices.

            I got caught up on my journal.

            I took some garbage out back and was talking on the deck with my next door neighbour Benji. He surprised me when he said he saw our former superintendent Sundar. A month ago he’d informed me that Sundar had died. It turns out that was just a rumour and Sundar was actually in a coma at the time in Toronto Western Hospital. Benji also told me that Sundar has taken up smoking crack and apparently he used to smoke crack before he moved in here.

            I deleted the video of my song practice from August 4, 2017 and made a video of my song “God Goes to My Head” from August 5 of the same year, getting rid of the rest. I’m pretty much ready to start recording new songs but I want to correct the buzz of the A string on my new guitar before I begin. It might be and hopefully is just a matter of getting the neck adjusted, which should only take a few minutes.

            I finished scanning a set of negatives of shots I took of my daughter when she was about two and a half in the early fall of 1993.

            I had a fried egg and toast with a beer for dinner while watching the last episode of the second season of The Adventures of Robin Hood and the first episode of the third season.

            In the first story Little John is in love with a Romani dancer named Carlotta who's been dancing at the Blue Boar and has also become a favourite of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin and the men are suspicious because of her acquaintance with the sheriff but John argues that Marian is also friendly with the sheriff. Robin asks Little John to get Carlotta to get information from the sheriff about when and along what road the tax money will be transported. That night she performs for the sheriff and his friends and the next day tells Little John that the money will be taken by the old Saxon ruins. Robin suspects a trap and so when one of the sheriff’s men rides to escort Carlotta from the Blue Boar to Nottingham, Robin snares him with a rope from a tree, jumps him, ties him up and puts on his armour. When Robin hears the sheriff and Carlotta converse he learns that she has been paid to deceive Little John and that at the Saxon ruins there is an ambush planned. Robin and his men go to the ruins ahead of time and set up a trap for the sheriff’s men composed of several loaded bows with their strings pulled back. When the sheriff arrives Robin shoots arrows to trigger the bows so they shoot at the sheriff and his men, killing or wounding some of them. Robin gives Carlotta a note to give to the sheriff telling him that while the sheriff was at the ruins Robin’s men were taking the tax money on the high road. Carlotta laughs.

            Carlotta was played by Jennifer Jayne, who played William Tell's wife Hedda in The Adventures of William Tell. She also played romantic leads in the films “Raising the Wind" and “On the Beat".

            The second story was the first of the third season but it and episode two were absent from the torrent that had been uploaded by uk_spuddybuddy. I found another torrent of the whole series by someone named TeDDy-p, who wrote in his comments about how horrible Spuddy’s torrent was and how he had taken special care to make sure that his was of the highest quality possible. Unlike Spuddy’s torrent Teddy’s was definitely properly titled so that I was able to select the specific two episodes that I wanted and they downloaded surprisingly quickly. But when I tried to watch the first one, after two minutes it froze and so I had to find the episode on YouTube and watched it there without any glitches. I noticed the next morning after restarting my computer that TeDDy-p’s torrent had not fully downloaded and that it was only at 8.1%. I don’t know why it registered as being complete the day before.

            In this story Lord Guthrie's salt wagons have not come to the villages and to the manors to make their deliveries. He claims that his wagons were robbed by Robin Hood’s outlaws, but really he has hidden his salt so that he can quadruple or quintuple the price. The sheriff says he will turn a blind eye for half the profits. Robin takes some wagons to the coast to buy sea salt but when Friar Tuck and Derwent try to distribute the salt Guthrie has his men confiscate it. When the men take the salt away Derwent follows them to the place where they are hiding it. If the lords and ladies of Nottinghamshire were to discover salt mines on their property then Guthrie would have no legal power over it and so Robin and his men take all of Guthrie’s salt and dump it down a dry well on Marion's estate. Marian persuades the local lords that she knows of an old man that can find salt the same way a water diviner locates water. She invites them to a demonstration where Robin in disguise uses a forked stick to locate the salt in Marian’s well. Lord Guthrie is very upset but the lords and lady tell him that if he brings his salt price back down they would buy their salt from him again and he agrees.