Rosemary

Cleaned, swept, drove nails from wood, cultivated, strimmed, watched 5.30am thunder, went to get new strimmer spool, wrong fixing corrected by Mrs Simone’s thumping hammer. ‘Mannagia’ she said. Bugger. She hadn’t noticed fixture difference with the constant milling of men in the huge chaotic workshop wanting their wounded machinery seen to.


A great word, Managgia. Often accompanied by ‘miseria’.