Lunchtime walks
\nby cricketjeff on June 22, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThere’s a family of goslings eating breadcrumbs over there
\nAnd a swan who thinks he’d like to eat some too,
\nThere’s a pretty girl sunbathing who is very nearly bare,
\nIn the sunshine I can smile and dream of you.
\nOn the golf course lines of golfers spoil a very pleasant walk
\nAnd the ice-cream van attracts a milling queue,
\nHalf a dozen local mothers watch their children as they talk
\nAnd I stroll along the banks and think of you.
\nThere’s a narrow boat reversing with a figure-heading dog
\nAnd an interested herring gull or two,
\nI shall stop and look at nature on this shady fallen log
\nWhile I eat a little lunch and dream of you.
\nWill the moorhens stop their fussing long enough to raise their brood?
\nWill the mallards ever stop that ballyhoo?
\nThere’s a sparrow and his mrs who would like to share my food
\nBut I’m not prepared to share my thoughts of you.
\nNow it’s time to leave this idyll find the road, head back to work
\nLeave the sun alone to entertain his crew;
\nIn an outer London office towpath walks are quite a perk
\nAnd they always make me want to be with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lunchtime walks by cricketjeff on June 22, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There’s a family of goslings eating breadcrumbs over there And a swan who thinks he’d like to eat some too, There’s a pretty girl sunbathing who is very nearly bare, In the sunshine I can smile and dream of you. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4640","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6867,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4640\/revisions\/6867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}