I got a better idea. I mused ... organic, small-scale
agriculture and livestock farming ... something like
that. Really out on the land. I made an appointment
with the administrator and Aline. But they'd rather
stick to gardening. The plan was too vague and
more importantly, it would top their budget. Yet,
I had more cards up my sleeve. At the reading table
I'd seen that the institute also issued a magazine.
Maybe I could contact the editor. To call up people
to attend a meeting, I wrote an first-class article,
if I may say so myself, and the 'press group' as the
editors called themselves, would publish it. And the
meeting could be held in their building ... but they
wouldn't spend a dime on anything. I was so
pleased, I also sent the piece to La Parisienne.
For the first meeting I had booked a room on the
first floor. I had about two weeks to come up with
a coherent story. By the time I started to get a
bit worried the article was, to my surprise,
published in La Parisienne.
