One life - live it!

Here is today’s pause for thought. Out walking this morning we passed below the summit of Stagborough Hill, a glorious green field facing south and quite a sun-trap on a chilly day. The footpath actually runs through a field used for off-road driving in four-wheeled drive cars, which trundled around the field whilst we enjoyed lunch. In the windows the vehicles displayed mottos along the lines of ‘One life – life it!’ Is it me, or is there something extremely tame about driving around a field in a motor? Me and my significant other, having walked for a couple of hours in bright sunshine through hills and valleys, watched bewildered as hefty drivers steered even heftier vehicles around a field. For people who most probably drive a car all week, to want to so at the weekend seems distinctly odd; for the same people to claim some sort of ‘living adventurously’ by driving around a field on a Sunday morning is quite ludicrous. Given that in the neighbouring woods all sorts of people are riding cycles on a variety of tracks suggests a wonderful contrast. And of course there were the walkers as, like us, enjoying the wonderful feeling of the sun in your face and the chill in your bones. So if you want a bit of adventure, try linking it with a bit of exercise – get off your bum and get out there in the elements; good for you, good for the environment, and I reckon, more fun. When I was younger, it used to make me feel quite …