The heat has gone out of the day and as we walk over our land. Swallows circle and twitter against a bluish sky..

We look down upon the lights of Mansfield and in the far distance circles of lights of other houses.

I can see nothing but a deepening blackness as night draws in. Clouds scudd across the sky and a new moon can be seen, reeling about like a small boat in the surging sky.

The rumble of a distant storm is reassuringly remote. Occasional dull thunder echoes across the sky ...