A glorious morning!

What a glorious morning - a wonderful walk in Randwick woods - they are really special - heres a photo just taken - and the walk was very welcomed - have spent too long looking at this computer screen this week!

Local poet Davies sprung to mind - something about this poem touched me when I was a teenager - long before it appeared in the Centre Parks ads - and yes it is a little naff? But something about me - and indeed much of our modern life - not making enough time to 'stand and stare'...

Leisure by WH Davies

WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Read more about the extraordinary life of the poet WH Davies who lived for a long while in Nailsworth - infact his nephew who used to live in his old house was one of the Green party's greatest leafleters in Nailsworth. See also a local poet's variation on this poem and a friend of mines' poems. Time for a croissant and coffee in the sun.