18 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
by Mike Lord
“In my mind I’ve divided each day into sections of four hours,” said the old man, “and each section contains, more or less, the same or similar activities most days.”
“I tend to start each day at six in the morning,” he continued, “which is just about the time I wake up.”
“Don’t you ever sleep later?” his granddaughter asked.
“If I do then that extra sleep is part of the next four hour section,”
“I wake up and go to the bathroom, and then I’ll go into the garden still dressed in my nightclothes, although in the winter I do wear a towelling dressing gown,” the old man continued.
“It might sound crazy but I like to communicate with the plants, especially in the spring and summer when they are growing strongly,” he smiled as if remembering a conversati
