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“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley”

I went for a walk in a local spot that which has the interesting distinction of being incredibly marshy and also cover with huge areas of sand.  This place has more different species of dragonflies than anywhere else in the country, and was so sandy that polar explorers used it to train as the best surrogate for walking through snow.  Today it was very wet and we simply couldn’t walk the route I’d planned so we just followed the driest path, out over the board walks over the marsh, until we found a drier path into the sand ‘dunes’.  The light was simply wonderful; the frost made all sorts wonderful patterns on the trees and, as you can see, the ice over the ponds and mires was just incredible!

All-in-all we had a perfect walk, in the most beautiful light followed by a rather nice lunch.  The lesson for me is sometimes, not knowing where you are going can bring all sorts of unexpected delights your way, so maybe we should not be so distressed when our plans can not be implemented…. So if your plan gang agley today, I hope that it bring unexpected gifts your way too!

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2 Responses to ““The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley””

  1. Ruth Edwards says:
    21 January , 2011 at 10:50

    Well, would you believe it Richard, your blog has hit a spot today. My best laid plans have gone awol today because of….well it’s boring really, just various other business distractions- and people stuff…

    Then in pops a couple of posts just at particular moments when I am feeling particularly frustrated about a particular point and they are absolutely relevant to the issue and made me rethink. And now yours – so me feels that whilst the universe was pulling me away from my goal, perhaps it was trying to tell me something else too!

    So, whilst I ponder on what that might be, I guess my ‘unexpected gift’ is that I am being told to either reconsider or approach my current activity differently?

    If I find otherwise I will let you know!

    Lovely to see you blogging again…

  2. richardderwentcooke says:
    21 January , 2011 at 10:52

    Ruth,

    I think you are wise to consider this way of looking at it. It seems to me that you really should focus elsewhere and let the answer to this one come to you whilst your attention is elsewhere. I place a lot of trust in these ‘messages’.

    It puts me in mind of this joke (which I think has a deeper message):-

    “A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says “get in, get in!” The religous man replies, ” no I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle.”

    Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in god and god will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again cause “God will grant him a miracle.”

    With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help for the faith of God. He arrives at the gates of heaven with broken faith and says to Peter, I thought God would grand me a miracle and I have been let down.” St. Peter chuckles and responds, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about, we sent you three boats and a helicopter.”

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