rising to the occasion

online: 19 february 2017
modified: 19 february 2017

19 february 2017 rising to the occasion

sitting in the hill garden for nearly half an hour while witnessing several pairs of people... some with cameras... posing and photographing as if in the fashion industry... though as i write thus i wonder if these words are 'out of date' (as is that very phrase perhaps)...

...at which several people who were taking photographs walked away towards the gate... it must be closing time so i follow them... only to find them gone and the gate locked and no sign of the person with a key...

...after about 10 minutes a man appears outside the gate and i ask his help... he tells me the emergency phone number (which is visible only from outside the gate but not from within)... i try the number but get no reply... so he phones it on his mobile... after about 10-20 minutes a very welcome heath policeman appears and lets me out... (before nightfall)...

...while waiting to be released i learn that my rescuer is a regular heath walker... and is also a recording musician... i was much impressed by his calm and sensible way of taking charge and doing exactly what seems necessary to rescue me... yet more evidence that (when things go wrong) there are plenty of people able to rise to the occasion...

...and thus (i think to myself) the hazards and weaknesses of the designed world can be overcome spontaneously by what we may call 'someone'... or even 'everyone'... (provided officialdom has not immobilised us)...

and i was equally impressed by the policeman... he seemed to me to be well able to 'do the right thing' (without fuss... or blame... and with respect... and confidence)...

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