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Nov 2016
7:40am, 10 Nov 2016
16,440 posts
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LazyDaisy
Excellent sonnetry (that *is* a word, right?) McG!
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Nov 2016
7:44am, 10 Nov 2016
26,700 posts
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McGoohan
Thankyou. I've edited it to include the route.
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Nov 2016
8:02am, 10 Nov 2016
112 posts
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bonners
Love the round the block one, the beautiful mundane!
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Nov 2016
7:59pm, 10 Nov 2016
11,563 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I like that phrase "the beautiful mundane". I struggled to find something profound to comment this morning; that phrase sums it up!
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Nov 2016
10:34pm, 10 Nov 2016
31,414 posts
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NoFleecingAround
Mundane things are often beautiful, that's where life happens  I love the blogs people do about run commutes and their normal everyday loops, that stuff is interesting to me!
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Nov 2016
10:43pm, 10 Nov 2016
10,253 posts
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Chrisull
I used to blog about the walk to school each day with my boys when they were young because it was always endlessly eventful. I still remember many of the best incidents. Whatever happened during the rest of those days those has slipped through the cracks and gone.
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Nov 2016
11:19pm, 10 Nov 2016
11,564 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I particularly liked the fact that you know/knew your neighbours. An alarmingly rapidly vanishing trait in many communities these days.
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Nov 2016
11:23pm, 10 Nov 2016
31,418 posts
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NoFleecingAround
We've lived here for 18 years and everyone parks on the street as nobody has a driveway. I actually think that's part of everyone knowing each other as we park outside each other's houses and pass each other on the street, plus some people walk to the local shops. You actually need to see people to know them!
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Nov 2016
11:27pm, 10 Nov 2016
31,419 posts
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NoFleecingAround
And Chrisull: that reminds me of the Shirley Hughes books, she could weave a whole book round something mundane like the walk to school or feeding the ducks with something memorable happening. It always struck me as the biggest part of her charm. Plus I liked seeing the messy houses people lived in
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Nov 2016
11:33pm, 10 Nov 2016
11,565 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
You need to see them, but also acknowledge their existence. There's a load of folk that 'see' their neighbours regularly, but few that could write detail like you did.
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