24 apr 2020 Seckar woods - Missing my loved ones

Went to Seckar a woods on a roasting hot day -

'You’ll see a carpet of bluebells covering the woodland floor. Return in summer and marvel as the heath land is transformed into a sea of purple with the Heather flowers. The diverse amount of plants found at the reserve has resulted in Seckar Wood becoming a designated special site of scientific interest'






Its true! also a wonderful public route through fantastic typical English pasture. How spoilt we are to live in this beautiful country and we certainly dont appreciate it, or do we?


On this perfect day, I saw only 9 people on this 200 acre lovely nature reserve, but even in these wretched uncertain times, all had a cheerful smile and good wishes for me as I exchanged 'good mornings', I made a point of asking that they 'watch how they go' , everyone one without fail - returned kind salutations.


 I finished Joe Hadelmands 'Accidental time machine' - he muses intelligently on how the human race might evolve in the near, medium, and very distant futures, what I like about Hadleman is that he roots everything in scientific fact, extrapolating from firm believable foundations. Its 'Hard Sci-fi' of the purest form.


Beginning to re - read Dr Albert Schweitzer " The edge of the primeval forest' - his real life journals of his medical missionary in 1913  - 


'Schweitzer left a comfortable life among the intellectual elite of Europe to pursue a difficult path of personal service to the suffering natives of what was then French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon).'


I never tire of this book

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest by [Albert Schweitzer]


Spoke to James, who is (like us all) not finding it easy to endure this lock-down, but he's such a strong lad, Im going to go and see him soon, regardless of guidelines. Its clear to me now that there is only limited benefit in the lock-down and its only purpose is to spread the load on the nhs.


Watched moves in the evening washed down with the finest  Pinot Noir - available to humanity.


Sam cooked Vegetarian Quorn Chilli - awesome!






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