As I Walked Out One October Morning

Laurie Lee is an English poet and author who is famous for writing the now mandatory 6th form text "Cider with Rosie". My favorite book of his is "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" where he ups and leaves his Gloucestershire village in the 1930s and walks to London and then to Spain. He leaves with only a few clothes, some treacle biscuits and some cheese; oh and violin. What a guy.

Better still he arrives in a just pre civil war Spain only knowing the phrase "Can I have a drink of water".

Anyhow, he is buried not far from Spug Acres in his home village of Slad. His last wish was to buried half way between the church and his local pub: The Woolpack. I visited his grave on Sunday and bought Betty the dog a pint of Old Spot at the Woolpack in his honour.

The Woolpack is an ace little english pub with a bar not much larger than a normal living room. My friend Rubbery Chaploe and I have decided to get drunk there one rainy afternoon and then read poetry at Laurie Lee's grave. We may even cry.