The green ally

A day off - and very wet. Spent the day in the front room, listening to lots of new music, eating lots of food and drinking lots of coffee. Caught up on blip - I'd managed to leave it for about a week, and this took a nice while, thinking back over the last week. Would have been perfect with a fire crackling in the hearth, but unfortunately we're not allowed to light one, as the smoke is managing to leek into my bedroom. I was woken up this morning by the builders trudging about on my roof, trying to locate the problem.

Took a walk in the afternoon, and decided to climb the hill behind my house, off-road. This involved a huge climb, with parts as steep as 45 degrees. This took me though deep, deep green woodland - mosses so deep you feel as though you might drown in them.

I also found it a very un-nerving place. Almost alien, the mosses and fungus, the tall, stretching pine trees with their dead and brittle lower branches clawing at you as you walk, the brambles creeping on your shoes and the wind howling in the leaves above while the air about you is so still and humid that you can see your every breath. It took a good 30 minutes to get to the top of the hill, and I was slightly embarrassed at the relief that I felt on reaching open land, but the uneasy feeling followed me all the way back home, like a shadow. I kept a watchful eye over my shoulder.

The rain continues to fall. First welsh driving lesson tomorrow.