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section 10 and today I have been to my knitting group at a cafe by the park. It is the second time for 15 months we have met in person and not on a screen. Things are opening up and you can see this in the park. It is midday, cloudy but not cold and it is busy. There are students sitting and chatting in small and large groups. There are friends who are delighted to see one another because it’s probably been ages. People walking to town, some in deep thought and others stopping and taking in the day on their way. Some guys are playing football and there is generally a relaxed atmosphere.
Today’s section is a boundary section is quite full of different terrain and items, so very different to the last two days of just grass. There are: 2 dog walkers and 1 dog, 1 football, 2 lampposts, 1 bench with 3 people sitting on it, 4 trees, 2 paths, 1 blackbird, lots of people walking through, 2 feathers, at least 28 pieces of litter (not including cigarette ends), hundreds of cigarette ends, 1 old aerial, snail trails, grass, buttercups, daisies, fallen leaves and dried holly leaves, wall, knobbly trees and 1 tree vagina.
As I said there are a lot of people in the park, but in my section quite a few walk through on the main path. Two men are very deep in conversation and it is obviously important work, they must be very important men possibly architects or council office workers. A family are sitting on the bench, or so I first thought, but the woman is sitting a little away from the man and his daughter and I have realised that they are on a date. Possibly the first time she has met his daughter. It seems a little awkward but ok and they are chatting and smiling so looking good. I mentioned the woman wearing orange trousers, they suit her and I look at her as she comes a bit nearer and at my own jeans, maybe I need to add more colour to my wardrobe!
We are on the boundary, as I said, and on this side we can see the building that used to be the arts centre, with the sculpture come water feature out the front. The Arts Centre closed a few years ago much to a lot of people’s upset and now I am not sure what it will be, probably flats. Apparently, according to my friend and the councillor I spoke to the other day, it used to be a ladies teacher training college before that and it is next to the QE college for further education. However we will see that better in a later section.
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