Dh took me for a romantic evening walk last night. He planned it out ever so carefully and secretly. He knows that I love water and stargazing, so we were to stroll at sunset through a nature reserve, between lakes on one side and a stream on the other, and return through woodland at night, arriving back at our car in an unlit carpark in time to stargaze for a little while before returning home to the babysitter.
He did not tell me what we were going to do, and in retrospect it sounds lovely.
But.
My MIL has warned me about her son's navigational skills...
For the first hour of the walk the lakes and river turned out to be a massive gravel works and a sewage processing plant!
By the time we got to the nature reserve the sun had set.
By the time we got to the woodland it was so pitch dark that I could see nothing, not even the track beneath my feet.
At least crossing the meadows there was a bit of moonlight, which helped when the dark ponies came up to investigate us.
It was so dark that dh decided we should walk the last mile along the road, rather than through the woods - but we were wearing dark clothes, so that was interesting on the narrow winding country lanes, not to mention the stretch of 50mph A-road!
And it rained.
He tried
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PrettyCandles · 20/08/2010 12:57
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