An Absolutely Perfect Day

Waves lap gently at the shore 
washing footprints from the soft golden sand.
Children squeal with excitement.
Mum and Dad watch on.

A man on a jet ski.
Lads on paddle boards.
A lady sets off on swim across the bay,
dragging a pink float behind her,
her three dogs - all wearing life jackets,
follow her. 
...looks like they do this every evening!

Setting sun starts to colour the cloudess sky.
Deep yellows turn to fiery oranges.
The sun,
now an orange disc,
quickly drops behind distant headland, leaving a quiet calm to the end of an absolutely perfect day.

Doors

Doors fascinate me!
Smart town doors on smart town houses in smart areas of smart towns owned by smart people!
'Felicity and Jemima' at a smart private school,
a smart pair of cars in the smart driveway,
a driveway no less!
Smartly painted deep blue or vermilion red doors - with a very large,
heavy,
brass knocker in the shape of a lions head on the front!
Successful people leading successful lives behind smart doors!

Scruffy doors,
Scruffy doors on industrial buildings.
Doors on closed down commercial ventures!
Behind that door started somebody's dream,
a dream to run a successful business, 
now crumbled and empty behind a shut, 
locked and pealing door,
maybe a repossessed door!
What went wrong?

Pub doors! 
Small thin double doors.
"Come on in!
Buy a pint and a bag of pork scratchngs!
Come and watch the telly!
We've got 'Sky'
Spend your cash behind our doors!"

Shop doors left open to entice us in,
fascinating sounds and smells going on inside.
Restaurants with doors,
locked but with a scribbled note stuck to the inside saying,
"Open tonight at 6pm, please come and visit us then. Book online!"

Big chain stores with multiple doors,
but which door to choose?
"No not that one!
         ...that's the exit!"

Huge doors.
Tiny doors - how does anyone get in through those without banging their head!
Glass doors you can hardly see,
big heavy solid wooden doors covered in metal studs - almost threatening!
Rotating doors in posh hotels,
always open yet always closed - very clever!
Automatic doors that 'swoooosh' open as you walk past like the doors on the 'bridge' of the star-ship 'Enterprise'.

Doors.
All types sorts and sizes and shapes and colours and materials and ages and designs and; and...

...and all we want to know is,


         ...what's going on behind them?



Let This Adventure Begin

It is the time of the 'early morning jogger'
and the 'pre work dog walker'.
People are dotted about the streets, 
perhaps some aiming to get milk and papers from the local shop,
 ...when it opens!
It's early!

It is not quite light - so it isn't properly day time.
But it is not dark anymore - so it can't be night!
It's lovely if you're out and about but would normally be found at work,
that means today has an adventure in store for you!

A sunrise is about to commence,
there's a hint of orange across the horizon.
A low lying mist settling in the hollows trys to hide from it.
There is peace and quiet.
The noises of modern life haven't yet started,
everything is calm - 
but its a special kind of calm.
It is a beautiful time of day,
a time which many people never get to see
...let this adventure begin!




(Haiku)

To save the moth from
a web; or to deprive the 
spider of a meal?

You Remember That

It's always the busiest person you must ask for a favour,
and the pub with the busiest carpark which serves the best ale.

It's always the ones with the shortest legs who want to run around the most,
and the one with the speach impediment who won't stop talking.

It's always the ones with the worst voice who always 'sing' the loudest,
and the one with the most generous heart who has the least.

Its always the quiet ones you need to be careful of,
because waters with a still surface are the ones that run deep.

So it's always the one whom you'd  least expect to do it; who do,
'cos it's always the most depressed person who has the happiest face.

...you remember that!

Chaos (What could go wrong?)

Chaos!
A Friday evening. 
A summer Friday evening.
A bank holiday weekend; summer Friday evening.
A last weekend of the summer holidays, bank holiday weekend; Friday evening!
A local air display last weekend of the summer holidays bank holiday weekend Friday evening!

...what could go wrong?