Vision In Blue

When I'm out and about I see a lot of things that make me sad. Adults, who should know better, throwing rubbish on the ground when they're two feet away from a bin. Teenager trying to kick pigeons because they're bored. It's really just very sad that, well, that people don't really think. I attract bus crazies, don't ask me how but they just gravitate toward me. So the other night on my way home from town I wasn't really surprised when two young kids and their mum came and boxed me into a corner. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Admittedly they were excitable but they were the nicest little family I'd met in ages. The little boy kept kicking me, but that was accidental, the mum kept apologising and told him that "the woman will probably kick you back, I wouldn't blame her". The next day was the little girls birthday and mum had got cupcakes and a bag from a toy store with her. She was asking them what homework they had and was...

So my Cornwall holiday is over for this year. It certainly wont be my last visit. There's hardly any of the hassle that you experience in the London area on a regular basis, and that is well worth the trip. Less chain pubs [well, different chain pubs so there kind of seems like a bigger selection] and the locals are lovely, and I specify locals because some of the human race left me very disappointed. One of our days out was spent at Eden. I had never been there before and it really is a spectacular sight. I did show my "townie" side, I couldn't help but notice the similarities of when you see the whole Eden site for the first time with when you see the Bluewater site for the first time as you drive over the hill. I did hang my head at that, after all one is a fantastic ecosystem and the other is a money ecosystem. It was immense to see so many different people there. A lot of effort has been put in to make is accessible to everyone. I saw the elderly with walking...

Today was going to be a very bad day. That was until one little thing happened that restored my faith in humanity. [Just a little bit of faith, there are still a lot of idiots out there doing damage!] I was waiting at the bus stop on my way back to work, my bus pulled up and there was the inevitable jostling for position. An older guy near me stepped in front of people trying to push past and said the simplest thing... "after you." It brightened my morning to meet someone who was polite and certainly in this instance a gentleman. Just goes to show you that even the smallest of gestures can lift someone's entire day.