Clocking off?

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The road was calling me north and I couldn’t wait to finish work and give in to its blandishments. The sun was shining and warm, the forecast unusually good for England. The fields were ablaze with the brilliant yellow of rapeseed, the hedgerows, bending beneath the weight of May blossom, awash with wildflowers. Pink campions covered the roadside, pale blue forget-me-nots, bright starry ransom and banks of anemones, and, in the shade of the trees, carpets of bluebells linger. The dandelion clocks swayed in the breeze, sending fairy-like seeds up in clouds to dance beneacth the trees. It was a glorious day.

As my job extends over seven days each week and any day off is deducted from my holiday entitlement, I make the most of these trips north for the monthly meeting of the Silent Eye, so the journey is part of the adventure. Refusing the mind-numbing boredom of the motorways, I have a route I now know so well that I could drive it with my eyes closed, if I didn’t enjoy it so much.

South to north, crossing half a dozen counties, I watch the seasons change. In the south, the roses and summer flowers are starting to bloom and spring is almost over… in the north, the bluebells still flourish and all the eager energy of spring is in the air.

The road, though, sometimes has ideas of its own, and beckons me in new directions. Following some inexplicable impulse, I took a new turning, finding a lake had never seen, where golden gorse tumbled down the hillsides, impossibly bright. There was a village that announced itself as a Saxon settlement, where I was obliged to stop and visit a little Norman church that just happened to smile at me as I drove past… and which contained some rather interesting Norman and Saxon artefacts things, given the current state of our research. As I drove through Matlock, I spotted a perfect prop for next April’s workshop in a shop window too…

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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26 Responses to Clocking off?

  1. Michael says:
    May 22, 2018 at 06:45

    Fab roadtrip …loving the route instead of taking the motorways!

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  4. jenanita01 says:
    May 22, 2018 at 08:54

    I love reading about your sense of freedom and adventure! Reminds me of a time…

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  5. Sue Dreamwalker says:
    May 22, 2018 at 10:59

    Just beautiful Sue, Nothing beats the Northern Route.. 🙂 Matlock a favourite destination of ours too. 🙂 ❤

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  7. Lyn Horner says:
    May 22, 2018 at 18:11

    Thanks for sharing your trip through the lovely English countryside.

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  8. Anne Copeland says:
    May 22, 2018 at 22:45

    If I could write as well as the three of you do, I would be beyond estatic. Thank you so much for sharing this beauty and sense of peacefulness in a life that is so busy. It is what I am aiming for as well.

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  9. Jennie says:
    May 25, 2018 at 01:17

    Thank you for taking us on this delightful journey. Just wonderful!

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