“Woopah, oh yeah yeah”

I’m on a walk through the Sussex countryside.

It’s a lovely walk around the village of Horsted Keynes taking in a wonderful country church, fishing lakes and walking right alongside the track of the Bluebell Railway.

I feel happy. Very happy. I enjoy the moment. It’s something I need to do more rather than dwell on the past or think about the future.

I’m walking back to happiness – hence the lyric at the start of this post.

The church I mentioned is St Giles church and it contains the grave of former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan.

It’s a simple gravestone in a plot which also contains the graves of his wife Dorothy and son Maurice. It’s not easy to find and the casual visitor wouldn’t know it was there.

I only knew about it from a guidebook – and by asking one of the church volunteers who happened to be in the grounds at the time and who pointed out roughly where I could find it. It still took a while to locate even with directions.

Living in the moment makes me think that, perhaps, like Macmillan’s declaration, I’ve “never had it so good”.*

More apposite is that I’m experiencing the “winds of change”.

*The actual quotation was “Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good” but most people misquote it as “you’ve never had it so good”.

Then again, misquotations of famous political speeches is probably the subject of another post altogether.