Commando Style

Yesterday I attended a village parish council meeting (virtual) for the first time ever; out of curiosty but also the find out what things were going on, and also so I could understand how best to influence certain topics of interest to me including re-wild flowering the "village green" & the re-opening of the village outdoor small children's playground which is permitted by our (current) lockdown rules. As a public member I was not permitted to speak, but was a very worthwhile hour & a half.

Also had an overly busy afternoon having extracted from my son that his car MOT certificate expired this Friday and that it also needed it's first service, since owning it. Found an independent Mercedes approved specialist independent garage at a good price and that could also do it quickly. He is very busy earning money and revising for his mock A Levels, which are more important with the Covid uncertainty.

Excellent pain clinic meeting again and am getting more focused and upbeat about improving my health; also influenced that my wife is looking to take a ineresting career enhancing secondment back in the NHS - if approved by her current organisation and offered the postion.

Today, an unplanned dog route meant doing a regular walk the opposite way round. Having negotiated the field that has horses as expected, sometimes thoroughbreads we then came across a large field that has only recently had cows put back into it - all congregated round the exit style. Normally would have seen these first and avoided the route. Feeling adventurous we proceeded to explore a new cutthrough. We came to a boundary hedgerow with a ditch in the middle for drainage as is common round here. Finding a less dense section belly crawled under barbed wire at both sides of the ditch, ensuring not to cause any damage, out of respect but so that we were not breaking the law. Encountered one other such obstacle before the releif of reaching a green lane.

Catalysed by a villager yesterday I also for the first time picked 3 apples off a tree by a footpath, that otherwise would fall and rot.

Really pleased to getting back more fitness and energy and my usual mojo.

The last footpath before getting back to the village runs through a private garden, which is kept semi- wild. A few magnificent large mushrooms were still there of a type I haven't encountered before, so decided to take a picture today - as above.