A brighter day

At last, the antibiotics have really kicked in and although I still have a cough and some phlegm, my energy levels are much improved. No taxi duties today, so took the dogs on the Westwood in Beverley for a change, we parked on Newbald Road opposite an area of woodland known as Newbegin Pits, so called because chalk used to be quarried by hand here. You can still see the depressions left by the quarrying, but that was hundreds of years ago and the land is now a mixture of deciduous woodland and meadows. The kids call the meadow "Telly Tubby Land", because here the chalk mining left mounds that are almost round and now fully grassed over. The going underfoot is soggy but all the trees except the ash are in leaf now and the birds are singing their heads off. After a short while we pass a fallen tree that I made a fairy story about for Louis, in the story a wizard is turned into a dragon by a wicked witch called Griselda. The tree looks quite like a large monitor lizard and we call it Louis' dragon. It helps that it's not raining today, so we take our time walking round our circuit of a couple of miles. The dogs are able to stretch their legs and socialise with other dogs as they form temporary packs and scamper about. After taking them home I call on an elderly friend to drop off some large print books and then spend a happy couple of hours just pottering about the town. After returning home, meditate for a while and then make a start on all the chores that have been put off by illness. If the improvement continues I may try a gentle swim tomorrow.