England is a wonderful place, really wonderful. There might be no better time of year to see it again than in April. Everything is iridescently green, almost glowing. There is a refreshing cool breeze and fluffy white clouds playing in a powder blue sky.
I have been enjoying cycling along the tow path and am covering around 10 miles a day, feeling exuberant and grateful. I am meeting family and friends in cafes and sitting outside some, sipping tea and watching the world go by. Sometimes I come home after dark, and what joy that is. The realisation that I can cycle safely IN THE DARK through local parks and along roads with no one waiting with a machete round the next bend. Hooray.
The river is mirror calm in some places, and those fluffy clouds are reflected in voluptuous splendour. The occasional boat drifts past. The crew have no worries about being swallowed by crocodiles or mauled by hippos if they capsize. It is all more beautiful than I remember, and I am grateful to live somewhere so lovely and, more importantly, so safe.
My father used to say that you should, 'make home the best place in the world, and once it is, why go anywhere else?'.
I am starting to understand that statement.
I have been enjoying cycling along the tow path and am covering around 10 miles a day, feeling exuberant and grateful. I am meeting family and friends in cafes and sitting outside some, sipping tea and watching the world go by. Sometimes I come home after dark, and what joy that is. The realisation that I can cycle safely IN THE DARK through local parks and along roads with no one waiting with a machete round the next bend. Hooray.
The river is mirror calm in some places, and those fluffy clouds are reflected in voluptuous splendour. The occasional boat drifts past. The crew have no worries about being swallowed by crocodiles or mauled by hippos if they capsize. It is all more beautiful than I remember, and I am grateful to live somewhere so lovely and, more importantly, so safe.
My father used to say that you should, 'make home the best place in the world, and once it is, why go anywhere else?'.
I am starting to understand that statement.
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