In town at this time of day most people were on their way home, the streets were busy with the last colourful flush of the day. Behind the town, roads run up the mountain and the large houses with larger gardens walled and winding, continual and quiet on their way toward the mountain rising gradually, pastures turn to heather until eventually the clouds that were once so free and high come lower and lower and fade in colour and disappear, and you find they are all around you, draped on the land. On the very top there is a hut that lies beside a small track. Beyond this, the mountain falls a little then levels into what the towns people consider proper countryside, glens and woods, bench’s that belong to no-one beside paths that that lead to nowhere anyone knows, out there you’ll find solitary cob farms, clean and empty, with all their occupants out in the fields. Keeping guard, a dog, out of sight and asleep, a retired horse standing still in the shade of the barn........................................ ( which means coconut), living clean and quiet, and well, which belies his circumstances, he arrived quite sometime ago and it is assumed to be a certainty that he could not have built the house himself, this is thought, along side many other reasons because he is known to be one of the laziest people you will ever meet, it is known that his horse still lies tethered in the stable though it died of hunger years ago, Nanan could never trouble himself to feed it. Yet as i said his house is clean, no dust, people joke it is because he sleeps outside happy with his bandit habits, that he only eats at the holy mans house so he has no washing up to do and that when he shits he does it on the top of passing stage coaches. It is true that he eats at Guppa the holy mans house, the holy man is bound by his religious beleifs to provide food to the hungry, Guppa’s day is long and quiet on top of the mountain, the trail up to it is long and out of most peoples way,the very poor stay in town to beg, still his day is punctuated by the few who do find themselves coming his way, and he provides them food which the church has collected for him, it is not commen in this region to still have holy men on mountains, people everywhere no longer seem to need the service they provide, Nanan however is the holy mans constant companion for he visits Guppa for all three meals of the day.