Dear Reader,
I really love this photograph. It seems to me that the 'open road' and its possibilities are what we all, at some time in our lives, long for. A way out of where we are. I have often read about people who spend their lives dreaming of a cottage in the country with roses round the door. But I suspect very few people get one and their life is a bit of a disappointment as a result.
I think all the characters in my favourite books live down the road in this photograph, and can imagine Mr.Toad in his yellow caravan just round the bend. Ratty and Mole will probably be walking alongside to keep Mr. Toad company and, of course, to keep him under control.
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From Gilbert White, 1787, August 26th in Hampshire.
'Timothy the tortoise, who has spent the last two months amidst the umbrageous forests of asparagus-beds, begins now to be sensible of the chilly autumnal mornings; and therefore suns himself under the laurel-hedge, into which he retires at night. He is become sluggish, and does not seem to take any food.'
From William Cobbett, 1826, August 28th in Wiltshire.
'(Five a.m.) A very fine morning.....My horse is ready; and the rooks have just gone off to the stubble fields. These rooks rob the pigs; but they have a right to do it. I wonder (upon my soul I do) that there is no lawyer, Scotchman, or Parson-Judge, to propose a law to punish the rooks for trespass.'
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Praise
She always tried to be good
did her best in everything she did
but her best wasn't good enough
her mother was too busy
meeting drinking friends
her father didn't notice
he was too busy making films
and they didn't seem
to know about praise
but praise is so easy to give
and so difficult to get
why can't people see that
a word or two can change
a whole life view
can turn a bad black day
into a day to remember
when your heart fills
with love and thanks *
With best wishes, Patricia
Photograph taken by Nikki Moran.
Beautiful. Sorry for the long absence. Mx
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