It's one of those rainy days

When optimism can turn to dread, for no rational reason, in a beat. A question mark someone emailed about a script now undermines the whole thing, issues and doubts spring from everywhere, you know the kind of thing. I went trawling on my computer for a little visual prod in the right direction and I found this. This is as it appears on the negative, nothing enhanced. A cloud above a field in Grasmere which is a village in the Lake District. I went there four years ago to celebrate my mum's 70th birthday. The photo was taken on her birthday, a beautiful Saturday in May She had been there with my dad when they were young and in love and wanted to go there again for her birthday. She has a picture of them together standing on a bridge in the village. They look happy in that photo. My mum treasures that image and the memories it evokes. While we were there, she asked me to take a picture of her in the same spot on the bridge. Dad wasn't there this time, unfortunately A year or so later, I took my girlfriend (now the mother of my young son) to The Lake District for a holiday. Those memories come flooding back now. Blue skies. This photo has saved my day.

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Photo: Grasmere, England 2005