Discerning Trespass

I reackon that almost all of us have fallen foul of the trespass laws at some point in our lives, as the majority of the land in this country is supposedly 'owned' by someone or other...now personally, i have a lot of issues with the concept of land ownership and trespass laws but that is by the by, it is what we are dealing with in the everyday reality of life as it is in this timeframe.I guess I trespass every time i go to my secret nature place, as i have to cross parts of a golf course to get there, but i am causing no harm, and for a good 99.9% of the time i have never been spotted as I go to and fro, but i am a human, walking where i shouldn't walk..which is a laughable concept really...as i was lithely making my way across the greens before, i noticed a few squirrels darting across over to my left, now they, like me, are doing no harm...are they trespassing? there we have it...I am marked by my 'human' status as a tresspasser, and by the fact that i am 'out of place' in my roamings, i am not doing the activity 'proscribed' to the place..(in this case golf) and also i am not doing something that us 'modern' humans are 'supposed' to do , like watch tv, or go to the pub, or the gym:)Its all nonsense of course, and i don't sit around dwelling about it...so switch on my 'animal' side and flow and weave my way across, interacting with the natural environment and not caring much of the opinions of others. The other way to get to the nature place is over a railway line...this is a different animal altogether, and i am not going to go into it right now, save to say that i have always wondered why walking alongside a railway track is so 'wrong', people walk beside much busier roads everyday... i think its the whole 'nanny state' thing, where we are essentially 'not trusted' by those 'in charge'....well, discerning trespass, not much wrong with that in my eyes! before i head off i will just say, i can see why people would have a problem with finding a stranger in their backyard or something...somethings are obvious, and rules or no rules, thats just plain weird:) over and out:)

Always Feeling Fantastic

I didn't get long there this evening...the time was ticking away...but after a day at the screen i HAD to get a nature fix...and boy..was it worth it!! raced over to the asda car park, then at the river in moments...the sky was all magicky and the river like some mysterious little lagoon...(its different everyday due to light, wind,tide etc)the clouds greyish white and darkening, as it does earlier at this time of year, and the air was fresh on the face...just right really. I entered the golf course through a hole in the barbed wire and scanned as i ran..(getting better at this)..more on the move, like an animal would do, relying on instinct and vision combined. speed walked over to the wood and up to the zone...bit of a potter, couple of spadefulls of moss/soil/twigs onto the roof of the teepee structure, then a sit on the flowerpot...watching the sky move by, listening to the odd rustle of trees etc...felt really alive..i always have a tendency to feel fantastic out here:0 natures medicine is WORKING! fortified, i left the place as it was darkening, moved quickly across the course, back to the river...the moon was peeping out...the last of the yellow sky was around the distant welsh hills before night took over...then back to the lights and the car park...in the car, and homeward bound