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Thursday PM (30 mins)
I  get  my  mother  settled  and  start  looking  at  the  company  brochure  that  I
downloaded.  I  go  through  their  blurb  line  by  line  and  pick  out  anything
interesting
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. This should also educate me about their organisation. Basically, at
the gig, the housing regulations firm are giving awards to building site managers.
I read their blurb twice and pick out the following...
• Their regulations are the Bible of the house building industry.
• They are looking for the X Factor in their site managers.
• They are interested in the site managers’ Interpretation of plans
• and ‘the awards are recognised as Oscars of the house building industry’
I  decide  the  most  interesting  word  is  Bible,  so  I  free  associate  on  it.  How  will
other  religions  deal  with  it?  I  need  to  be  careful  not  to  stray  into  offending
people. I know the comedienne’s husband’s Jewish and write the line:
These regulations are the Bible of the building industry apparently...

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My husband’s Jewish; he would only follow
half of them.
I think about house building and stone and the 10 commandments being set in
stone...
If these regulations are the Bible of the house building industry are masons’