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Gallery is published eleven times a year as a fresh yet discerning guide to all that happens on the Island and beyond. Not too arty farty superior or too serious, written by you and enjoyed by people everywhere.
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Peter Kwiecinski Matt Mosur
The Outdoors
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ot sure if you’ve heard, but ‘the great outdoors’ has been having a bit of a renaissance recently. Going outdoors, for the last few months, has been pretty much the only thing we’ve been allowed to do. Pounding the pavements, watching grass grow, planting flowers or jet washing the driveway have been some of the most exciting things on our collective to-do lists; and this great epiphanous pause in life has helped us remember that nature and the great outdoor have their own agenda, their own uninterrupted relentless cycles of existence that are much more authentic than most of the mundane things we used to treasure and worship. Our new respect for nature has made us pay attention to its wonder and beauty, we may look like we’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards but our actual hedges look phenomenal. We may have taken it all for granted before, hardly noticed a changing season, a wild meadow or an annoyingly loud dawn chorus but now we can safely say that the outdoors has sometimes saved our sanity as our patio areas have brought hope and refuge and our country walks have restored our balance. Sure, your holidays may look a little different this year and the word ‘staycation’ may become more ubiquitous than the word Brexit but at least you have beautiful surroundings, so get out there, enjoy it and try not to dwell on the fact that the garden centre is now one of your favourite places to visit and that the pub doesn’t really feel like so much fun any more. Before you know it, the grass will have grown again and you can cut it and the world will feel like a safe place once again! Welcome Back! SR
Adele Priest Sarah Jewell
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