will need painting before it rots

it is a lovely day, a day of clear sky, the sounds of people conversing to be heard over the rooftops.
silence.
All the motorists quiet.
A single helicopter buzzes and rattles it's way past overhead.

And the wife has gone to the flea market, to buy old clothes.

This is a Saturday morning
Try to enjoy the peace of it.

Then the emails.
America and the British and the French have decided to bombard Syria, or they are doing it.
They say they are bombing Assad.
There is always collateral damage.
There will probably be nothing but collateral damage

Mail from the brothers
they are unhappy
unhappy about what, exactly?

The son is trying to restore an ancient video recorder
for no reason in particular that I can see, other than that he wants to see it working.
The mechanism, you know, not just the invisible electronic doings of digital information transfer

The window frame will need painting
before it rots