Travelling Man

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Track of the day - Catch The Wind - Donovan

Tomorrow I become a travelling man heading north to the frozen wastes of Scotland. We have to travel in short stages because Mrs B's newly stitched innards are not supposed to travel vast distances.
I suspect that we would get there just as quickly if we walked. We'll spend the night in Cumbria somewhere and move on to Angus on Monday.
We hope to arrive in Aberdeen on Tuesday in time to meet the rest of the Clan as they get off their planes, trains and rickshaws.
It seems strange that there's an empty house up there that's waiting for people to breathe life into it again.
Cue for a poem -

Home is so Sad

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.

Philip Larkin 1958.

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