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Stay At Home, A Time To Reflect

As I approach my Trombone birthday (76 years) when some must live in total isolation, whilst the rest endure a hermit life-style. I wonder if this is creating an opportunity to reflect not only on past times but new experiences of that are available in the tapestry of life?

Throughout the UK we have sculptures, well worth a visit, Barbara Hepworth’s works at St Ives, The Angel of the North, Stonehenge and the one and a half miles long Forth Railway Bridge (surely one of the wonders of the World) to name but a few.

Here in our local county of Cumbria and formerly parts of old Westmorland we have access to nature, some “Jewels of the Lakes”. The landscape which we can easily take for granted, harbours some gems. The Bowder Stone in Borrowdale, an old gnarled volcanic rock and nearby the ancient cave of Castle Crag. We have the splendid Devils Bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale and the Langdale Pikes. The many fells, ghylls, lakes and tarns are all there to behold, vistas of landscapes, majestic valleys to lift one’s spirits.

Okay! we have Seathwaite, the wettest place in England. We may come across some lesser known species, the New Zealand pygmy weed, an alien invader, or Touch Me Not Balsam, but equally we have our wonderful Oaks, the ancient Yew trees and much more, all there to be explored and enjoyed.

Many of us have younger family members and friends. Why not spend some of our enforced enclosure planning how we can open their eyes to the wonders around them.

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