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It was all entirely accidental, though no-one would believe me, later.

A flock of birds flying low over Derwent Water drew my camera eye away from the colourful couple in front of me, their dogs (one could only assume they were their dogs) barking at them as though they were in charge of the outing and hadn’t approved the new storyboard.

I love these subtle conspiracies of events, and the noisy, spoiled dog with the blue duo-tones was growing on me… Which was good because he only had eyes for the geese, now on final approach. Had he seen me snooping with phone-camera in hand, anything could have happened.

And then the birds landed on the water, seeming to fill the decidedly non-linear space to the right of the photogenic twin figures…whose fine umbrellas now seemed to be focussed – like a parabolic dish – on the source of the greater noise: the scattered geese reforming their assembly..

Mmmm a little circular and self-referential, I remember thinking, which prompted me to check that I wasn’t feeling nauseous.

“Sweetheart, what’s a migraine like?” I asked my wife.

For a second I was worried my mind was dropping into overload … since I had just spotted something large and very pink, moored across the water on the billionaire’s island.

But the thing that got my fevered and unravelling attention the most was the dawning comprehension that the two humans had complementary coloured umbrellas… And, on closer inspection, his was dark blue – which exactly matched her jacket; and hers was bright orange – which exactly matched his jacket.

Back at the movie, the leading dog (did I just type that?), clearly peeved by not having anything that matched anybody, returned to barking at the geese, who ignored it again.

The goulash stew at the Dog and Gun pub was restorative.

The torrential storm that followed us down the M6 and back to Kendal was hell on earth, and practically impossible to see into while driving. We must have been close to thirty near-crashes as idiots drove at sixty plus into a wall of water spray through which no-one could see.

The red wine on arriving home was purely medicinal. Honest.

I’ll be fine in the morning.

©Stephen Tanham 2023

Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, a journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being.

http://www.thesilenteye.co.uk and http://www.suningemini.blog

Category: #Humour, #MindMovie, Consciousness, English Lake District, landscapes Tags: , , ,

18 Comments on “The bemused dog with the people with the complementary umbrellas”

  3. A fascinating scene you captured there, Steve. The colour coordination is indeed impressive – especially to one like me who is often unable to rustle up even a matching pair of socks! Clearly, I need to up my game if I am to be taken seriously.

    Your drive home in the storm gave me a shudder and took me back to my commuter mornings on the M61, cars doing 70+ in the pitch dark and heaving rain. There is a percentage of humanity who lack basic imagination, and awareness of risk, but make up for it with oodles of self entitlement, and the ability to blame others when it all goes wrong. I hope the red wine did the trick and you’re feeling better.

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