Every now and then something happens that has unexpected consequences. Amid the horrors that have been caused by the Coronovirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions on all our freedoms is one of these unexpected outcomes. Whilst we are all confined to barracks, natures having a field day, pollution levels are dropping, you can hear the birds signing again, people are actually walking to the shops and venturing out onto the roads on their bikes for their daily exercise, something that the majority of the population is normally to scared to do for fear of being squashed by some idiot in their 4x4. The reduction in traffic has given me the chance to see things that I've never noticed too. I must have run past this house hundreds of times over the years. It's on a blind bend with no footpath and normally I'm so focused on staying alive that there's no time to look up, let alone look around. But just look at what's been sat there all along looking down on us idiots in our cars! Now the cars have gone the sound of the world has changed too. Normally if I sit in my garden the predominant background noise is the constant drone of the M3. We live nearly 2 miles away, but it's always there, a constant reminder of people on the move, the closer you get the louder and more intrusive it gets, drowning out all the other sounds that we used to take for granted. Birds singing in the dawn, the distant sound of church bells ringing, silence, all lost to the sound of cars. But listen closely, and for a short time only, whilst we are all shut away, it's back!
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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