Finding Faults within the geological map of the mundane
Portsmouth 22nd July
Monday:
I wake to early 5:29 am – expecting rain (normal fault one)
head downstairs – breakfast + cup of tea made quite well
In bath awaiting storm that never came (normal fault two)
Sign up as volunteer on ARC Cambridge website – complete 5 tests – Empathy, AS, Geometry, Systemizing, contained shape recognition
Builder turns up unexpectedly just before 10 (part of complex fault three)
knock on door but I am not dressed yet as its already too hot – hiatus before opening (complex fault three)
Builder fixes fault in roof without putting ladder in next-doors garden – the lead (Pb) had slipped (part of complex fault three)
Break glass after they have left washing up (normal fault four)
puzzle at emails making best guess – annoyed with my dyslexia (reverse fault five)
Edit map by adding dyke and fault structures derived from the basic image part 1
Arbitrarily cut misplaced or misshaped dykes and tidy up the edges of coastline part 1
head out in the sun to pay my tax bill at the local Post Office
Meet and chat to local councilor on the way
Post Office – no queuing
walk a different way home
Edit map by adding dyke and fault structures derived from the basic image part 2
Arbitrarily cut misplaced or misshaped dykes and tidy up the edges of coastline part 2
I make important phone call and get upset (reverse fault six)
Edit map by adding dyke and fault structures derived from the basic image part 3
Arbitrarily cut misplaced or misshaped dykes and tidy up the edges of coastline part 3
Cook tea for OH when she arrives in from work
Try to relax with TV and making – does not work to suppress panic attacks – so try a drink (Transverse fault seven)
head to bed and read by torch the ‘British Regional Geology – Scotland: The Tertiary Volcanic Districts’ 1961 Edition I bought at the BGS London shop in 1978
Hot: Impossible to sleep as am suppressing panic attacks (Transverse fault eight)
Get up 11:29 pm and read downstairs
next-door has left in taxi with large bags leaving doors open – strange
Whiskey one (normal fault nine)
Whiskey two (normal fault ten)
look at book and map of Mull
Tiredness finally strikes at 1:13 am head to bed
hot still but start to fall asleep
Closing eyes all I see is the map and the details in colours I have not used
Opening my eyes – panic attack in silence so not to wake OH (final fault eleven)
fall asleep before radio news at 2 am
dream
