MantisObscura

Your phone bills are smaller now, with no long distance calls to make, and your car insurance reduced to reflect lower mileage and all those journeys not made, those roads not taken, those lanes that you know like the back of your hand - Left, right, straight ahead, right, right - are no longer driven.  You did not see the bluebells wake and spring burst forth in the countryside, did not see the snow on the fields, cold horses in their   quilted coats pawing, nibbling, pawing. Christmas stamps still tucked in your wallet, unused, and fountain pens dried up next to watermarked John Lewis writing paper with no letters left to wr