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Brigade77
I like to take my dogs for a walk early in the morning & we often gets to watch the dawn rise & the world wake up. Not just because I likes my dogs, but also 'cos I can survive on 4-5hrs sleep a night & anything more tends to upset my body clock. Besides, the dogs are accustomed to it & a lie in 'till the crack of midday is just not possible in their world.
Occasionally, we wander across the fields & down to the local lake, a popular walking spot even for those without dogs & in these troubled times it has been an absolute joy to watch the families venture down there for their 'wellie walk' / just to get out of the f#kkin' house.
I only go down there occasionally at this early time 'cos in my time in t'village we've averaged 3 suicides by drowning a year. It really is a nice place to park the car & the lake is a modest 1.5ml walk on a good path. I'm told the car park is also very popular at night to those folk who go "dogging" yet don't actually own a dog ???
I know from past history of footprints in the snow, & even bumping into folk at 4am, that I'm never the first to do a lap of that lake on any given day, yet I'm always very, very wary of any parked cars that I cannot place to an owner at that early hour.
I didn't know him & he didn't live 'round 'ere. Seems he travelled 5mls sometime last night, parked up & went for a swim. Over the course of this day I've learned he was 30'something with a beautiful young wife & a beautiful young daughter, a nice house & a good job that probably didn't translate to well to lockdown.
It's fair upset me. My black Lab 'Mabel' spotted him & made me know she'd spotted him by showing her excitement at wanting to dive in & retrieve him & needed my approval.
I've spent most of the rest of this day visiting & being visited by folk who I don't think fully understand exactly how I feel. Why do I feel guilty that we didn't go for that walk a few hours earlier & maybe had a chat in his car. Why do I now think that lake walk is totally out of bounds . . .
Occasionally, we wander across the fields & down to the local lake, a popular walking spot even for those without dogs & in these troubled times it has been an absolute joy to watch the families venture down there for their 'wellie walk' / just to get out of the f#kkin' house.
I only go down there occasionally at this early time 'cos in my time in t'village we've averaged 3 suicides by drowning a year. It really is a nice place to park the car & the lake is a modest 1.5ml walk on a good path. I'm told the car park is also very popular at night to those folk who go "dogging" yet don't actually own a dog ???
I know from past history of footprints in the snow, & even bumping into folk at 4am, that I'm never the first to do a lap of that lake on any given day, yet I'm always very, very wary of any parked cars that I cannot place to an owner at that early hour.
I didn't know him & he didn't live 'round 'ere. Seems he travelled 5mls sometime last night, parked up & went for a swim. Over the course of this day I've learned he was 30'something with a beautiful young wife & a beautiful young daughter, a nice house & a good job that probably didn't translate to well to lockdown.
It's fair upset me. My black Lab 'Mabel' spotted him & made me know she'd spotted him by showing her excitement at wanting to dive in & retrieve him & needed my approval.
I've spent most of the rest of this day visiting & being visited by folk who I don't think fully understand exactly how I feel. Why do I feel guilty that we didn't go for that walk a few hours earlier & maybe had a chat in his car. Why do I now think that lake walk is totally out of bounds . . .