There reaches a point in one’s life when you realise that you are, perhaps, not quite as young as you once thought. Well I might just have reached on of these points this morning. Let me set the scene. I live above the main flood plain for Leicester which floods from time to time. So as I’m on a bit of a photo bender at the moment I thought wouldn’t it be a great idea to record the flooding.
So far so good. However, as I was wading through the cold water I suddenly realised that one of my socks in my wellies had come off and I was in fact walking through the water in a bare foot as wellies have virtually no insulating properties. Now in the past I would have shrugged this off but today I suddenly felt a cold shudder running through my body. For the first time I thought to myself… “..why the hell am I doing this?…” In the past I have happily stood at the bottom of a dock slowly sinking into the mud to take photos of eider duck in the middle of one of the coldest January’s in recent history and I didn’t feel the cold. Today I did. I didn’t stop but after this every step made me feel colder and colder. Oh the joys of getting old!
Simon Marchini
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