I’m alive I’m alive

I have to get used to going outside again so a long with my walking ajds I hobble us to the main road at the end of the Street.

The sky is a strange yellow grey and it’s very damp under foot:there is no one about I’m surprised no parents are on the way to the school to collect their children but maybe they don’t want to collect them today. Maybe all the parents have absconded

I get to the main road and  one van goes by. No bus car or bicycle and still no pedestrians

Should I be here? Do they know something I don’t know? I decide not to cross the road anyway. That’s going to be difficult but I will do it very soon because I want to get to the river to see the swans.

When I get back to the house I can’t turn the key in the lock I had not thought about that when I  broke my wrist.  Bya strange coincidence a royal mail van has drawn up buy my gate and the man gets out and brings me a parcel and then he opens the door for me.

Next time I should to go to the other end of the street. There is bound to be more traffic there. Maybe I could just play a record of noise or something on my phone that I could listen to you through earphones

Outside …..is this a good idea to wear earphones when I’m walking along the pavement. Will I be mugged? That will be an introduction to modern life except I would have to buy an iPhone first otherwise nobody will want to mug me when I judt have my old Motorola sticking out of my pocket.

But it was very pleasant to go outside and smell the damp eartg and see the trees getting ready to bloom as they do at the end of this month

Because I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive