The Importance of Being Idle

Tranquility

Ah, welcome to the summer solstice, hope you've had a lovely day. My day started just after 4am as I was the one appointed to get up first and see if the weather was okay, before waking Ronnie up so she could go greet the sun. Me, I greeted my pillow and went back to sleep, but then I had to go to work today and Ronnie had the day off. And she has the day off tomorrow too. Hard to remember or even believe that I was off work for the entire of last week, being back for only a couple of hours erases the memory so very completely. Still, there we go.
Work was totally work-like, but when I got home this evening there was just time for Ronnie to take me to the wood she performed her mid-summer ritual in, a place called Workely Wood (at least I think that's what it was called it's a part of Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire). It really is a lovely place too, thoroughly tranquil and magical, even when you've only got 45 minutes to walk about before they lock the car park gates. We didn't stay on the proper trails for very long, and were all too quickly lost to civilisation. It's nice to imagine what that place, in fact any place would've been like before we got too big for our collective boots, when all you could see and hear were the sounds of nature, before man began to change things faster than the things themselves could cope with change. Or at least I find it nice to imagine that, a world without modern humans, but maybe that's just me. For all that I love the trappings of the modern world, fast cars, computer games, mp3 players and the internet, I still think that the planet as a whole would've been better off if we'd never come down from the bloody trees in the first place...

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:35 PM