I woke up today in a much better mood, and the sun was shining, so I decided to go for a nice leisurely walk in the park. Good idea, right? Years ago, when I was much younger, I could waste away hours in the park. For the life of me I can't actually remember what I was doing, but at that age time flew by without me taking that much notice of it. I took my walk in the late afternoon when the kids were just getting out of school, so there was quite a mixture of people about the place. Some playing sports at the facilities provided, others simply lying down, and enjoying the sun. To be fair we have to here in sunny old England, ten minutes later we could be in the middle of a thunder storm. One thing that I did notice was the play area that is provided for the kids. It's nothing like it was in my day. Ha...I make it sound like I'm an old lady. Everything is all brightly painted, and there's loads of different activities, that usually involve climbing, to keep the little angels occupied. I suppose these kind of play areas are now competing with playstations, and television, so they had to step up their game.

Whilst I was walking through the park I walked past a bench, that had three elderly ladies sat on it, and one elderly man (lucky him!) and I thought to myself what a lovely picture it would of made. They had all brought their dogs, and they were running about their feet, and they were all gossiping amongst themselves. The man was sat on the end of bench, he appeared to be trying to detach himself from the whole conversation. It just made me smile looking at them. The park is pretty much split up into two sections. There is a quiet area for those who wish to worship the sun, or just sit and have a chat, or whatever, and then there is an area for the kids. I walked through both areas, and I have to say, the kids area was just a little to much for me. They have a basketball section, where all the boys hang out, I guess they vary in age, from about 14, and then there are some my age. Walking past a group of boys, who must be around the 18 year age, acting a little boisterous, as boys do, I was slightly intimidated. Does thats sound silly? To be fair to them they were doing absolutely nothing wrong, they were just having fun. Sometimes it can be difficult for a girl on her own. She can feel quite vulnerable, and I really wish I didn't have them feelings. I thought to myself, they are only little boys, but these little boys are much bigger than me, due to my short leg syndrome, hehe!

I enjoyed my nice walk in the park though. It was very refreshing. I came home, and a friend of mine asked me what I had done today. So I told them, that I went for a nice walk in the park. They looked at me in horror, and informed me that young girls on there own, could not go walking in parks. I've had this conversation many times before with people. Especially regarding jogging in the park early in the morning. You just shouldn't do it. Isn't that the kind of thing parks are there for though? For people to enjoy the outdoors, and take part in different activities? If some people had their own way, we would never leave the house, and live in complete fear. I just can't live my life that way. To be fair it was the middle of the day, and the park was filled with all other people. I personally think that is just a silly thing to say. It's like saying, don't cross the road, you might get run over. Do you know what I mean?

This made me think of something I saw on the news a while ago that annoyed me a little. A police officer was telling people how they could be safer whilst walking down the street. He advised people to hide things such as ipods, and mobile phones, and then people won't be tempted to attack you for them. Isn't the whole point of having an ipod and a mobile phone (I think the word MOBILE gives it away), so that you can have them when you are walking down the street? Why should we hide them? We worked hard to buy them, we want them, why the hell should we hide the fact we have them? So some idiot doesn't think it will be a good idea to rob you for it? We shouldn't live in fear, and we shouldn't have to hide things we have. I just don't agree with it. I get it, that you will be less likely to be attacked if people don't realise you have such things, but it shouldn't be like that. If I want to walk down the street chatting on my phone, I should be able to. I shouldn't be thinking about hiding it, just incase some idiot decides they want it. Grrrr! Hehe...I'm done ranting now, and I did have a good day! No one is going to stop me from going to the park! So there!