Early rendezvous

Since I’ve been walking the dogs at around sunrise, I see a completely different group of people to the ones in the middle of the day. I don’t see them all every day except for one couple. I say ‘couple’ but I’m not sure that’s completely accurate. Let me explain.

It’s important to note that the following is made up of many different sightings starting in late May to today. It’s a sort of jigsaw but, for clarity, I’ve edited it all together in a linear form.

Almost every morning, I see a woman with a beautiful red setter. They have walked from the car park at the golf club. Normally, by the time I see them, they have reached the gate into the pasture we call The Queen’s Bottom. At about the time she arrives, a man comes through the gate from the pasture, and meets her by the football pitch.

There is no physical exchange apart from the dog who runs up to the man. The three of them then go through the gate and walk along the top of the pasture.

Once they’ve finished their walk through the pasture we call The Queen’s Bottom, they emerge onto the football pitch and she heads back to the car park while he walks along the fence towards, I assume, the path.

I once heard them talking, but that’s all the contact I’ve witnessed between them. Mind you, I am generally a long way from them. Also, they don’t arrive together, and they leave separately. It’s also very early in the morning. A lovely mystery.

And this morning, we all had a lovely, just beyond full, moon to witness our walks.

There it is!