Change often goes unnoticed, perhaps because it happens so slowly, or we do not want to have change so we block it out, or it happens while we are being distracted by something else.
The previous months have been full of warmth, goodwill, happiness. It was the summer months.
I have been training and travelling to many places, in Turkey, Italy, Malaysia, Bahrain and many places in the UK, I have been very busy.
Ok, there had been down days when it was cool or wet, but the rest was sunny, bright, warm, making me feel good, young at heart, happy.
Now, suddenly, change.
Here in the UK, as in other parts of the world, we have had bad weather. The sun has disappeared, we seem to be under a dark cloud every day. It is raining. It is cold.
Suddenly, people here in the UK are wearing warm clothing, jumpers, coats.
Gone are the Gucci sun glasses.
Today I went for a walk and had a visual signal that change was with us.
Under a heavy clouded sky, standing by the fast flowing cold river Thames, swollen by recent rains, I noticed that the river birds, swans, geese, ducks, were fewer in number than there had been in the summer, restaurants had less people eating at outside tables, but more noticeable were the trees on the opposite bank of the Thames.
The River Thames at Kingston upon Thames in September 2008
The leaves were changing colour, they were not green but yellow.
Oh Poo Poo, change is happening. Best make the best of it.