walk

Leave the house after having filled the waste paper from the kitchen waste paper bin into the big blue collection bin at the entrance. Leave the kitchen bin there, beside the blue bin, it can be picked up later after the walk.
It is a sunny warm day, walk along the alleys past the priests house, then cross the market street, then take the alley by the police station. There is the small black car, the car that has not been started for two weeks now. It is still there, it is still dirty. Take the path along by the new private car park, and then into the park, The park is full of trees, and is laid out on a slope, going all the way up to the castle on the one side, and to an uncultivated garden and a playground the other. It is like a forest in the middle of the town, deer used to be kept there for the hunting amusement of the gentry.
Walk up the long steep path, be out of breath soon. There is a tall tree stump, nearby, maybe ten metres tall. The top of the tree was torn off in a storm, and now this huge stump is being used as a tower block by no less then six pairs of woodpeckers. They have made a series of holes in the wood for their nests, and they are all constantly coming and going.

When the breath has returned walk on. There is a small monument there for the fallen during the first world war, all students of a secondary school. The names of soldiers in the second world war have been added around the plinth. There place of death is written there too, many in France. The monument is damaged, that was either frost, or else maybe a tree fell upon it. Maybe vandalism.


Near the top of the hill there is a small enclave for animals, a small zoo. There are goats and deer. Various birds, a pair of peacocks and water fowl. The hens have broken out of their enclave and are running around the park.

There are more visitors here, on their daily family walk. Maintain safe distance to them, imagine all those virus' straining to find new hosts.

There is a platform with a view all over the town. Admire the town, listen to the ambulance horns in the distance. The ambulance and the fire brigade, they have a lot of work to do these days.