Walk Seven – When it all gets too much

As today is a bank holiday and thus not a work day, I thought it would be an opportunity to take a bit of time over my drawing. However when I sat down and looked at the view in front of me – trees, woods, hills, valleys, hedges, fields, a railway track, clouds scudding across the sky – I felt overwhelmed with the enormity of attempting to translate it into line or watercolour. And then I spotted a ladybird in the bank of wild flowers next to me. I thought, I can manage that.

On reaching the High Street and preparing to put the lead on Rufus, I realised I’d left it where I’d been drawing, over a mile back. Oh no! Then I remembered that it was very near the road, so for today my feet were going to take precedence over the environment and rather than walk a further two miles, I was going to drive. However when I told Robin, he was a real sweetie and offered to go off on his bike with Xavier for a ‘treasure’ hunt to let me get on with this post.