Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday, 29 Mar 2024, 14:55
The weather was cold but sunny, when I went out for a walk this afternoon. I decided to walk through the village rather than across the muddy fields(it had rained earlier on)
What struck me the most, as I walked along the street today, was the silence along the main road. Even though it was Saturday, there has been hardly any traffic about (especially since the pandemic.) It reminded me of when we had first moved here from a large industrial town in the late ' 70s
Of course as time went on things changed, as everyone could afford their own cars. The husband, the wife, the teenage children all owned cars, these stood in their large drives. Then it was not so quiet anymore, there were so many cars, driving about madly everywhere!
However, today it was like being transported back in time, to those peaceful days again, when we first arrived in this quiet village. A time when there were very few cars about. It was as if time had suddenly gone backwards.
It was not always like this, but today I heard a blackbird singing so sweetly, so clearly, in a nearby tree, birds flew down onto a bird table in one of the gardens, now this was most unusual because it is on the main road leading into the village, so usually lots of cars charging past. But not today!
I stopped to sit on a bench on the quiet market place, and I closed my eyes. I heard birdsong, I saw some magpies and several gold coloured finches, who landed close by to where I was seated.
All that was missing now was the sound of a little flowing fountain, as. you see in the market places, while on holiday somewhere in Provence in the south of France!
"Why can't it always be like this?" I said out loud. Maybe it could? Imagine this scene in the city or town centre. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Well one can have a dream as they say, but wouldn't it be good if it came true?
An Environmental Day
The weather was cold but sunny, when I went out for a walk this afternoon.
I decided to walk through the village rather than across the muddy fields(it had rained earlier on)
What struck me the most, as I walked along the street today, was the silence along the main road. Even though it was Saturday, there has been hardly any traffic about (especially since the pandemic.) It reminded me of when we had first moved here from a large industrial town in the late ' 70s
Of course as time went on things changed, as everyone could afford their own cars. The husband, the wife, the teenage children all owned cars, these stood in their large drives. Then it was not so quiet anymore, there were so many cars, driving about madly everywhere!
However, today it was like being transported back in time, to those peaceful days again, when we first arrived in this quiet village. A time when there were very few cars about. It was as if time had suddenly gone backwards.
It was not always like this, but today I heard a blackbird singing so sweetly, so clearly, in a nearby tree, birds flew down onto a bird table in one of the gardens, now this was most unusual because it is on the main road leading into the village, so usually lots of cars charging past. But not today!
I stopped to sit on a bench on the quiet market place, and I closed my eyes. I heard birdsong, I saw some magpies and several gold coloured finches, who landed close by to where I was seated.
All that was missing now was the sound of a little flowing fountain, as. you see in the market places, while on holiday somewhere in Provence in the south of France!
"Why can't it always be like this?" I said out loud. Maybe it could? Imagine this scene in the city or town centre. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Well one can have a dream as they say, but wouldn't it be good if it came true?
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