Walk to the Welly

We drank with friends in the Wellington last night. The pub's good enough in its own right, but one of the main reasons for our choosing to meet there, is that the walk is pleasant. Yes, we go through streets, but there are lots of snickets and paths en route, and a walk across Horfield Common. it's quiet, green and just the right distance for one to feel that a drink is deserved upon arrival, and similarly feel that the effects of the drink will be ameliorated by the long stroll home.

And there are plenty of others who have walked that route. We turn left out of our garden path, left again, then walk past, firstly, the house where Paul Dirac was born and raised. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. He went to the same school as our children did, and at which Indira Gandhi spent a few months in '37. After that, we walk behind the prison in which various notorious villains have been incarcerated, across the common and past Cary Grant's home. Our daughter was in the same class as his great-niece, who is the last member of his family to share his surname.

So we have a scientist, a great politican and a famous actor to act as guides. I'm a nonentity, but happy with it. I'll probably stay that way.


:-)