Saturday, November 15, 2008  [britain] easy on my mind  Fabulous
autumn day in the woods today and in the words of John Buchan's
Richard Hannay:  "I could not contrive to feel careworn."  The
colours, from light green through the browns to orange and the
canopy of branches were soft on the eyes and the smell of the
forest was something else. Everyone walking past was
acknowledging everyone else with a nod and the nastiness of the
past week just dropped away. Squirrels hopped about and ate nuts
between their paws and birds called.  I'm going to run posts on
the best of Canada, the U.S., Australia and Russia at some point
but today is "the best of Britain". Britain has a few things
going for it, despite the recession, despite the ASBOs, despite
this government and their USSR mentality, despite lots of
things.  Here are some:  1. There is a sense of history. Even
woods have a history to them, an ancient name and you can
imagine hunters in there 700 years ago, the deer and so on. The
castles and historic building