On Wednesday morning I finished looking for
the chords for Marilou sous la neige” (Marilou Under Snow) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I’d tracked down four sets of chords and then I started working out which one
fit the best. I found that the first set, in the key of F worked best, but with
some variations. I worked out the chords for the first two lines.
Around
midday I looked for and found right away the sanding block that my landlord
gave me more than ten years ago and I started sanding the closed off door in
the bedroom. I made a lot of progress and although I had previously guessed
that it would take me all summer, I now think that it might be finished by the
middle of August.
I
had cheese, lettuce and cucumber with ranch dressing on a toasted croissant for
lunch.
In
the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this
story Sapphire has just graduated from business school and she’s gotten a job
as a buyer for a department store. Upon learning that company policy does not
allow for the hiring of married women, Sapphire tells her boss that she’s
single but she doesn’t tell her husband. After Kingfish comes to bring Sapphire
a sandwich at work she tells her boss that he’s her brother. The boss has
fallen in love with Sapphire and goes to Kingfish to ask for her hand in
marriage.
I
took a bike ride. There were a lot of cyclists out riding and I had to pass a
long line in the Annex. Because I was racing a young woman most of the way,
although I left later than usual I got home sooner. It’s strange that I didn’t
pass myself on the way.
I
had an egg and a loaf of warmed up naan for dinner with a beer while watching
two episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
In
the first story Little John tries to rob a sweet talking peddler who instead
sells him a set of dice that he calls “Pharaoh Stones”. He convinces Little
John that the stones can predict the future and the first few times they seem
to be right. Little John rolls them to find out about his friends and when the
serpents come up they are supposed to indicate danger. Little John finds Will
and Edgar attacked by three of the sheriff’s men and he thinks the stones
predicted it with three serpents. Little John, believing that the stones are
protecting him, single handedly attacks the three soldiers and defeats them.
Later Marian is visiting the camp but after she leaves and Robin escorts her to
the edge of the forest Little John rolls the stones and believes Marian will be
in danger at the bridge. He rushes to warn her and just as she stops and turns
a tree falls to where she would have been if she’d kept walking. It’s tax time
and Robin wants to intercept the sheriff’s tax collectors with several
coordinated raids, but Little John rolls the stones and declares that no one
should go. Since the stones have been right twice in a row, every man but Robin
and Will agree that they must not disobey the stones. Robin decides that a stop
must be put to these Pharaoh stones and so he forms a plan which he implements
with the help of Marian and Will. Later Will arrives out of breath at the camp
announcing that Marian has been captured by the sheriff’s men at the old barn
by the bridge. Little John says they must rescue her but Robin says they must
roll the Pharaoh stones first. He deliberately has them turn up with all
serpents. Robin says they can't go but, as Robin hoped, Little John breaks free
of the stones’ influence and heads off to rescue Marian. Shortly after that
Marian returns to the camp and tells Robin that there are soldiers occupying
the old barn. Realizing that Little John will be captured Robin and his men
head for the barn. Little John is indeed captured and bound in the barn where
the tax collectors are counting everything they took from the poor people of
Nottingham. Robin shoots out the lamps and before the soldiers can shut the
doors and windows Robin and the men are inside. The ledger reads, "Sheriff's
tax 1200 marks" but Robin adds, "Robin Hood's tax, 600 marks".
Little John gives the stones to Will but Robin takes them and throws them into
the forest.
In
the second story Robin and Will are in Nottingham being pursued by the
sheriff’s men. They decide to split up and Robin enters a house where he is
greeted by a handmaiden named Ann who acts like she was expecting him. She
leads him into the house but at the stairs he is confronted by the master of
the house, Bligh Denton the merchant. Denton thinks that Robin is Sir Peter
Marston, who has been secretly courting his daughter Judith. Denton has called
for priest and plans to put a stop to the sneaking around by forcing Sir Peter
to marry Judith that night. Of course when Judith sees Robin she knows that he
is not Peter but Robin convinces her not to reveal to her father that he is not
whom he thinks he is. The priest comes down the street and he turns out to be
Friar Tuck. But before Tuck gets to the door of the Denton house he sees Sir
Peter trying to enter just as the sheriff’s men grab him and take him to the
deputy sheriff. After learning of the complex circumstances from Robin, Tuck
performs a marriage ceremony. Meanwhile Sir Peter is trying to convince the
deputy that he is not an outlaw. The deputy finally agrees to take Sir Peter to
the Denton house if only to prove that he is lying. When the sheriff’s men come
to the door Robin takes Denton into another room. Then Robin emerges disguised
as Denton, somehow having acquired a fake beard, and welcomes the deputy.
Judith's embrace of Peter proves that he has been telling the truth. The deputy
leaves but Peter is initially upset that Judith has married another man. Tuck
explains that he married Judith to Peter Marston and so it was a marriage by
proxy. All that he and Judith have to do is join hands and declare their
marriage as valid and so they do. Despite having been tied up in the other room
Denton is happy to have a knight for a son in law and the prospects it will
have for his business.
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