In a busy day, just five minutes peace can make a massive difference! Fortunately for me, the nearest local park is only a few minutes walk away. It is not the biggest park around. But it is very well kept by locals, who devote a lot of their spare time to continually improving it. They do a great job and have been doing so for many years, long before a certain politician started speaking about 'The Big Society'. And, best of all, it has a fantastic Japanese garden.
This has been designed by the Japanese Garden Society, managed and run by volunteers incidentally, to enable people to connect with the natural world and experience a feeling of calmness and relaxation. It certainly has that effect on me every time I go there, which is becoming an increasingly frequent occurence. A Japanese garden is said to be crafted by people as a form of architecture, so in this sense it is nature as art. So thanks to all those volunteers who have made this artistic experience so enjoyable.
The only negative aspect of the garden is the yellow and black CCTV warning stuck onto one of the trees. It's just a shame that we need to install a system which monitors visitors to a place of peace, to ensure that it is not damaged by vandals. I'm sure that if they took five minutes peace they would never dream of damaging a place like this.
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