Quiet please

Let's share a moment of peace and tranquility.....

Did you manage it? Or were there cars zooming by outside, dogs barking, aeroplanes overhead, music pounding, builders building, ice cream vans, the constant hum of a motorway in the distance.

I spent the weekend in a holiday cottage near Kendal where it is much quieter than at home. No traffic hum. Just birdsong, which doesn't really count as noise. (Unless it's that damn sparrow that woke me up at 5am last week.) It was also properly dark at night, no orange streetlight glow. I would love to live somewhere where night is night, where you can see the stars properly and notice the difference between moonlit nights and cloudy nights and stormy nights.

And so onto the next project: Little man's first camping trip. Sadly delayed until this year due to last year's marital issues. Now I just have to rope in a couple of friends with a large tent...