These are a few of my favourite things

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child - a long way from home. Where are our leaders? Blair tells us there’s no point in cutting back our personal consumption. Russia threatens Europe’s oil supply - new power games ahead. Heat wave on the East Coast. The first year that winter didn’t happen?

These are a few of my favourite things; thinking about them helps offset the depression.

• Hearing the choir practise in St John’s Hall on a Sunday afternoon.
• The Ouse when it’s flat and brown.
• The winter mimosa down by the Railway land.
• The smell of bhajis from the stall at the Farmer’s Market.
• Lying on a grass bank near the Ouse up from Willey’s Bridge, watching the sunset.
• The walnut trees in Baxter’s Field.
• The lights of Lewes from the golf course at night.
• Downstairs at the Needlemakers; it smells old and there are trinkets that people have stockpiled over the years.
• The bowling green in the watery light of a winter morning.
• Picnic on the banks of the river under the blossom trees.
• The first apple from Oakhurst Farm and knowing apple season has started again.

What are your fears and dreams? adrienne@vivalewes.com