Appreciation

This weekend was a great get away. The trip up to the Lakes was comparatively hassle free compared to recent attempts to get there. The weather wasn’t the best, but we got a good rain free day on Saturday. Getting out and about up there always reminds how pleasant it is to visit. The lack of noise, traffic and pollution is always refreshing. On Saturday evening it was starting to get dark, and we returned home along the coast road. The smell of the sea air combined with the great sunset was fantastic. As usual I’d left the camera at home, so the spectacular view was guaranteed! We went up over the large Common that separates my mum’s house from the sea. We stopped at the summit, largely to admire the view. The small hamlets and villages that are scattered around it twinkled like fireflies in the distance. It was pitch black by this time and the sky was clear in places. There’s such little light pollution that you can see millions of stars. Mrs Zilla and the Godzookies, got to see their first ever shooting stars. Godzooky 1 was amazed – he’d never seen so many stars before, and the concept of shooting stars excited him tremendously. I’d taken it for granted that people experience the same things in life. Mrs Zilla was 6 before she’d seen the sea. I appreciate where I was brought up so much more these days, especially have children of my own. Showing them the same things that excited me as a child is fantastic. It’s almost like revisiting your own childhood, but with a greater understanding and appreciation than you had at the time.