Come Outside

“Look up, look down, look all around, up in the air or on the ground, come for a walk, come for a ride, there’s so much to see, so Come Outside.”  *

We love good long walks.  (Or in the case of the Tubblet, a good long, short walk).  Getting outside somewhere green and filling our lungs with fresh air makes us feel better.  Our heart rates slow, our souls feel refreshed and we feel like we could tackle anything.  Apart from, maybe, the ironing.

The lake near St Alban's Abbey is one of our favourite places to go.  It was a cold, but not too cold, day.  After a week of being cooped up at work and school, it was just what we needed. This is another of my thin places.  

Time to slow down, meander and be together.  Family, alone or down time is important and sometimes you have to make that happen.  Or you spend the whole weekend doing chores, rushing from activity to activity and it's Monday again before you know it.

Followed by a hot chocolate.

For those participating, enjoy half-term and see you on the other side!

* Come Outside was a BBC children’s programme that was made from 1993 to 1997, then endlessly re-run.  The two main characters were Auntie Mabel (Lynda Baron) and her pet dog Pippin. They went on adventures, usually in Auntie Mabel’s small colourful spotted plane.  In each episode, you learnt how something was made or how it worked.  There was also a sub-plot, where Pippin gets up to mischief without Auntie Mabel knowing.  Once Pippin hid a bar of soap to avoid a bath.  The Tubblet loved it.  I've no idea why the song popped into my head whilst I was writing this post.  But it did.

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