In our road it seems to make a real difference. You can hear people up and about - even grass cutting at 7 a.m! There is the noise of machinery, cars and much more - all as if to say "Hey everyone it's a warm and sunny day let's get going."
The day stretches ahead. There's no need to shiver, no need to put heating on and just an urge to get out there and have a walk, do some gardening, play some sport (now we are allowed to again).
Yesterday was so glorious that I didn't open my e-mails until the evening. I didn't even check Facebook until then and I have to say I felt better about it.
The downside is I will have to get in the hard hours this evening in order to be in a position to publish the April Hethersett Herald later today.
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Regular readers will know that I am working my way through the novels of Charles Dickens at the moment in the order they were written. I am currently coming towards the end of The Old Curiosity Shop and there was a passage in my reading today that resonated with me.
It talked about the legacy that a human leaves and referred to graves tended in a country churchyard. The inference was that when a person dies and is buried (remember we are talking about the middle of the 19th century here) the grave is visited regularly shortly after the burial - up to three times a day. Gradually this three times a day becomes once a day and then once a week and then once a month and then once a year.
One character points this out, but a second puts a much different spin on things pointing out that whilst a person's grave may not be visited after a period of time, their contribution to life may be immeasurable and may continue for years.
This is certainly the case in Hethersett. I call it a personal legacy and it is something we can all leave. Indeed we do all leave a legacy. It can come in the shape of what we do, what we achieve, the descendants we leave to succeed us and much more.
I still remember many of the characters who were in Hethersett when we moved there back in the 1970s. Many of them helped to shape the village as we know it today and in a future blog I will talk about some of these.
In the meantime just three phrases that I always hold dear and which somehow sum up positivity.
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not" - Written by George Bernard Shaw and paraphrased by Senator Robert Kennedy.
"When In Doubt Do Something" - Harry Chapin.
"If a man tried to take his time on earth and proved before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world" - Harry Chapin.