Stopping is good, too...

The weather hasn't been too cycle-friendly in this week of so-called midsummer. So when the sun came out of hiding yesterday afternoon, I hopped on a bike and headed west. After a few miles into a gusty and quite strong headwind, I stopped for a breather at a country road junction. I propped the bike against a fence and then lay down on the grass verge. With the sun on my face, the breeze held at bay by a hedge and with the scent of summer flowers all around, I stayed a while. And then another while. All in all I must have lain in the grass for about half an hour, watching the occasional bird and nodding to the few motorists who stopped at the junction.

Of course I could just as easily have taken my ease in my back garden, but in addition to the pleasant sunbathe I had a change of scene and an hour or so of healthy exercise riding to and from the selected spot. As we sometimes say in these parts, "Ye canna whack it"!