Wide berth

Good morning. We were up early. Mayze slept with me on the bed last night. Oscar came in late and headed upstairs to bed, but I had to stop him because Mayze was already there. They still don't get on, but that's Mayze's fault, she was here first so she likes to think she is the boss of the household. Oscar slept on a chair in the living room. 

Looks like it's going to be another nice day, I like waking up with the sunshine streaming in, it makes me feel invigorated and ready for another new day. 

Yesterday I did one of my five mile walks out into the countryside. Must take every opportunity to get some sunshine on my body. There are some lovely trees in full blossom at the moment.

Walking along a track alongside the turf fields, I saw a rainbow. The spray from that water fountain projects it a long way. I could feel the mist landing on my head from quite a distance away. Had to wait for the whirly thing to change direction.

Aaahhh, there it is, I knew I saw a rainbow.

Oh dear, here we go again. Another fresh pile of garbage dumped in the ditch. The farmer has dug this out to assist the free flow of water from the top of the fields down to the river. Now the drainage is blocked by mostly empty beer bottles and other household rubbish. The trouble is that the tarmac access road to the windfarm has no barriers because farmers need to drive their equipment up and down. People come late at night and use it as a dumping ground. 

There was a slight breeze yesterday but still warm. Ideal conditions for a walk. The only thing which spoilt it was coming across a group of young men blocking the tarmac track having a kickabout with a football. Another consequence of not having gates. There must have been about twelve of them, and four parked cars. I approached with caution, a walker coming towards me five minutes earlier had warned me about them. He said he had walked through them. 

I had two options, avoid them by walking across a field to my right, giving them a wide berth, but that wasn't fair to flatten the newly seeded and growing crop. There was no way I was going to walk through the men, no thank you, I don't want to be anywhere near them. So I veered off to the left and went into the woods, scrambling over brambles. It's a good job I had trousers on and not my shorts which I had on last week. I continued through the woods until I was well past them, then came back down onto the track again. 

No they are not supposed to be meeting up for a football game, but what can you do, it is happening all over the place. All I can do is keep well clear of them. As I came towards the end of the tarmac  track a tractor came by me towing a machine. He was headed that way, so I hope he sorted them out. 

Now it's time for breakfast, porridge I think will do nicely. A trip to town is needed sometime this week, I will make a third attempt to go to the bank. That will happen maybe tomorrow or Thursday. All this planning is giving me a headache. I like to do things on the spur of the moment, but now some thought has got to be put into where we can go, and the best day and time to do what we need to do. 

Tattybyes for now. ilona