I think I always wanted the simple life. Somewhere I could breathe and feel the wind and rain and the warmth of sunshine on my face. Somewhere I could live in peace and calm and wake up to the sound of birds twittering outside the bedroom window. Somewhere where you could hear the distant baa from a young lamb to its mother. Somewhere I could be close to nature. Somewhere I could feel free
I certainly wanted to work with my hands and never envisaged a career behind a desk, my mind focused on facts and figures and not in the hill tops and clouds where I would rather be.
So, as I look down from my lofty viewpoint by the top drum house in Dinorwig quarry my eyes take in the magnificent mountains around, the valley, the lakes, and fall on the little white cottage by the lakeside below. Caught in a beam of dawn sunlight poking round the corner of the valley, I feel at home here. This is where I will settle.
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