PREENING HERON

I'd just absorbed B's morning dose of pessimism when my friend with serious mental problems phoned to cheerily tell me she was better and then demonstrate during an hour and a half of near-monologue that she definitely isn't. I know professional counsellors are trained to protect themselves from having all the positivity drained out of them, but in the absence of such training I headed off to Saltholme for a few hours of Nature and not talking to people.There's always something there to restore the balance.

Mr Dury