DannyBoy

...and thinking that all the new leaves, different shades of green and yellow, not a particularly bright day but no longer raining perhaps, as earlier when I went for my daily swim: the grass different hues of green, abundant so far only in patches, the whole scene presaging the dawn of summer. And within a month now I shall be departing for another sojourn in the Arctic latitudes of Northern Finland and Arctic Norway, my 6th year in a row. Next Monday the 22nd anniversary of my mother's death day when as she was 26 years older than I tells me I too am approaching the fatal day when I too depart this world, already so many of my erstwhile friends and relatives having followed in the wake of my Ma. But just this time of year as I had begun to get used to seeing the Gulf of Finland's sea loom, with the morning sunrise in our East facing garden, the whole scene changes to reveal another new spring, when its as if everything is breaking into a new beginning? Newly arrived ...

Yeah, it's not something one gets to do that often but when one does one can't help feeling pleased with one's self... Like this guy Readi, Mr Reed I started calling him in my thoughts after the event. Someone I met aged 15 he 26 already already a man of the world me just a green horn not knowing anything about anythinhg, except the knowledge I could be easily led... Cycling along he the Clarion Cycling Club's best all rounder, a racing cyclist most proficient in the 25, 50 and 100 miles time trials in 1955 just returned from one of his tours round Europe, but on this last occasion working the "VENDAGE" collecting in the vine harvest which used all the cheap lanbour it could get, making himself another "Working class hereo for so behaving... Well on the day in question he singled me out to offload a pair of white crocheted knee length socks he's ordered by post in 2 adjacent sizes figuring if the larger size was too big he would off load it onto m...