Back in the UK.

I'm going to be back in the UK next week for the first time in a year and a half. I don't mind if all the usual things happen once I get there, if all the frustrations are the same. I am not romanticising the place. It can have been changed (changed utterly) into a Daily Mail post-apocalyptic fantasy of Poundlands and hoodies and fear. But there are some things I definitely, inalienably can do there that simply aren't possible here in the megalopolis, that I am really looking forward to. 

1. Go up to the top field and watch the stars, hear the wind in the beeches.

2. Go for a walk by a lazy flowing river.

3. Feed the ducks with my wife and kids.