Very short walk today but long on memories. Walking home from the new ASDA store from the market to Hero Bridge and then beside the river to Lemon Road, I was struck by the hundreds of times I must have made this walk - long before ASDA was thought about. To the library, to the market, to school. What I noticed tonight more than anything else was the stars. It's not exactly dark-sky here but you can still see more than I have become used to. I could recognise Orion and the Pleiades and the Plough. I remember my mother pointing that out to me and saying how her father had pointed it out to her when she was a girl.
I suppose I got my exercise for the day carrying the bags of shopping, but the memories have certainly been good too.
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