Little things

Fallow Doe © Laurie Campbell

As ever I have worked all weekend with nothing outstandingly good or bad involved, no customers of note in either a negative or positive respect, just day to day weekend retail madness.

It will never cease to amaze me that so many people want to shop on a weekend and and it confounds me further that they are forming a queue at the door by 9.30 on a Sunday morning, if not sooner. There are many places I might like to be at that hour on a Sunday, if I had not to work, but on the doorstep of a superstore in the cold would most certainly not be one of them!!

The mundanity and routine of the working weekend was tempered by one or two small but very pleasant surprises.

The first was an invitation from someone who has become a good friend of late, an invitation to do something I have never done before and that I am looking forward to like a small child.....more on that soon.

The second was the beautiful sight, as PG and I left home this morning for work, of two beautiful adult deer not 20 yards away. They had no cover other than a light mist, both turned in unison at the sound of the door closing shut, looked at us for a few moments and then meandered slowly on their way, stopping to graze intermittently as they went. We stood and watched in silence as they pottered around the field, seemingly unperturbed by our presence until they had gone from our sight.

We have lived her now for three years but until this morning had seen no evidence that there were deer 'in the back yard'.

So that was my weekend, no fireworks here, there are too many animals in close proximity had we even wanted them but instead a few little events that made it quite a special two days.

It's the small things in life as they say .........